Today, Autodesk is pleased to announce official support for running Revit 2010 on a Mac through Boot Camp. In the past, many users used this option to run Revit on their Mac, but without official support from us. Now, you can come out from under that rock you were hiding under and bask in the warmth :).
Revit Architecture, Structure, and MEP 2010 now are supported if you are running Windows XP or Vista using Boot Camp.
I have been running Revit 2010 on a Mac book Pro (unsupported till now) for a while now and can say that things have been running pretty smoothly.
The system requirements for running Revit 2010 products on a Mac are the same as running on any other computer, but you do need to take in to account the requirements for running Boot Camp.
Running in Boot Camp is different than running Revit in Virtualization (like in VMware Fusion or Parallels).
Boot Camp allows the selected operating system to run in native mode. Unlike using virtualization in which you can switch between the two operating systems without restart. At this time, the virtual machine environment is not supported.
If your interested in more information including a FAQ doc, check out the updated system requirement product pages (link to the FAQ is at the bottom):
I find it pretty exciting that we are now offering support for running on this hardware. It might open up a whole new group of users (maybe some more college students?). I am interesting to see just how many people are going to be using our products on the platform. Let me know if you think this announcement is going to impact you or your next hardware purchase.
Besides just the Revit products, we are adding official support for AutoCAD (just AutoCAD, no vertical products like AutoCAD MEP or AutoCAD Civil 3D) , Autodesk Inventor , Autodesk 3ds Max , and Autodesk 3ds Max Design via Boot Camp.
Remember that this announcement is only for the 2010 products, 2009 or earlier products are not supported.
Happy Mac-ing...
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This is great news! I've been teaching Revit at VA Tech (Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center) for the last 2.5 years, and I've noticed an increase in Mac users. In the Fall 2008 semester, we had 2 mac users, all running the Revit 2009 student version through Boot Camp. In the Spring 2009 semester, we had 4 mac users, out of 22 in the class. They'll be happy to know that 2010 is now officially supported!
Posted by: John Schippers | July 21, 2009 at 02:21 PM
I've been teaching Revit with a Mac for over 2 years. Everywhere I went, I would have to say (sorry, it's unsupported). This is good news, and it arrives on the day Apple announces record non-holiday profits.
There's an oversight on the "Autodesk on a Mac" page. 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 are currently supported within Boot Camp for the late 2008 and newer hardware.
Posted by: Sean Burke | July 21, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Could I run Revit on the new 13" MacBook Pro
(2.53GHz/4Gb memory/250Gb hard drive/
NVIDIA GeForce9400M graphics processor with 256 MB) ?
(using Bootcamp and Windows XP)
Thanks,
Posted by: David Vasquez | August 16, 2009 at 11:03 PM