“The day has come – officially!” Anthony Frausto-Robledo reports for Architosh. “You can now run Autodesk Revit, fully supported on your Mac.”
“Autodesk and cloud-computing company Frame announced the complete certification of Autodesk applications in a virtual environment,” Frausto-Robledo reports. “In a nutshell, run Autodesk Revit or Autodesk AutoCAD in a fully certified and supported cloud environment. (Editor’s note: AutoCAD for Mac runs natively on OS X as does the LT version).”
“What’s different about this official supported version and Autodesk’s previous and still running Boot Camp official support is that under Boot Camp you turn your Mac into a Windows PC,” Frausto-Robledo reports. “That’s not the Mac experience. So, this is truly the first official support of the Mac version because you run Revit at full speed off the cloud through your browser and you stay in your Mac environment.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Congrats, Revit users!
frogware.
Hell has frozen over.
And now for the iPad Pro version. AutoDesk is leading the way with Pro CAD Apps moving to iOS with AutoCAD 360 etc… Now please bring Inventor and Nastran In-CAD.
AutoDesk, keep it coming! The rest of you slow movers (SolidWorks) you should really set up and pay attention!
YAWN… real BIM software has run on 64bit, multiprocessing Macs for years: ArchiCad. When Revit users try it they love it.
http://www.graphisoft.com/archicad/