Rather than covering the concept of partitioning your hard drive (it is pretty straightforward), I want to run through the option of using a virtual machine to run Revit for Mac or Linux. Although this will get you up and running faster than partitioning your hard drive, it is probably not the best solution for most Revit users. The major downside to using an emulator to run Revit for Mac is your machine is technically working nearly twice as hard to run an operating system inside of an operating system. Emulation refers to the ability of a computer program in an electronic device to emulate (or imitate) another program or device. An emulator typically enables the host system to run software or use peripheral devices designed for the guest system. In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest). In a nutshell, this sort of emulation gives your non-Windows machine a virtual machine “inside” of it. If you only need an instance of Revit for Mac to review models or do some light work, you may want to go the route of using virtualization software such as Parallels or Fusion. I will say that if you don’t need to do any heavy lifting in Revit, splitting up your precious drive can be quite the chore especially if your sole purpose of partitioning is only to get a version of Revit for Mac.

On the plus side, this method gives users a true Windows experience and allows users to leverage the premium hardware that Apple users seem to be committed to. Really, at that point you have transformed your shiny Apple into a Windows box. Rather than waiting for Autodesk to release Revit for Mac, there are several options for running Windows applications on an Apple machine.Īpple has gone to the extreme and has finally given its users the option to partition their hard drive and boot directly to a Windows installation using Bootcamp, which obviously will let you run any Windows application you like. Of course, back then Autodesk didn’t even offer a version of AutoCAD for Mac ! The good news is, things are quite different now an we finally have some viable options for running Autodesk software on an Apple machine.Īutodesk has provided an Apple version of AutoCAD for several years now, but still there is no native version of Revit for Mac in sight. As with learning any new application, and in this case learning about the technology of Building Information Modeling itself, I became obsessed and I wanted a version of Revit for Mac. When I started using Revit back in 2005, I was an Apple Macintosh user.

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