Performance issues? Could it be faster? Yes of course … as always, when you sit in front of your Mac or PC and wait for something. And there is the IFC-File (transferred to a Revit file for better performance) and another Revit-Model only containing the 2D-floor plans from the architect (for printing etc.) also linked into Revit. So we end up with about four to five Revit-Models linked into our own project file.

The building model comes from the architect (in most cases as an IFC-File) and the MEP is done with other engineering partners who also use Revit. There are also large buildings from industry, banks and shopping malls in our portfolio. and we have projects (residential) with 20 or more stories (LOD 400 to 500).

In fact, I only know one personally.Īll I can say: We use Revit on Mac’s in a virtual machine (in full screen mode). I do not know many architects using Revit. So Revit is far more interesting for the MEP engineering part. In fact all architects I know use ArchiCad

As an example: A wide range of architects in Switzerland use ArchiCad on Mac’s. I think here in Switzerland things are quite a bit different. We're talking tens of thousands of man-hours of software development effort. That's what it would take to port Revit to the Mac - a complete reimplementation of the whole system from the ground up. You actually have to make a whole new engine for that. That's like saying 'can you already start making those petrol cars in diesel version'. You can't just port a system as complex as Revit to another, completely different, platform. It's not like they can just pull a lever on the Revit making machine and it will start laying Apple branded eggs. Second, asking to just 'please start producing X in Y flavour' shows a bit of ignorance about what is actually involved in producing anything. I hope they concentrate on bug fixes and performance enhancements and innovation in the 3D modelling area. As I said before, I'm a Mac guy and native Mac Revit would be awesome but I don't believe that it's the right thing for Autodesk to pursue at this stage. Apple desktops have always been niche devices. We really need the software.įirst, Apple's desktop business accounts for about 7% of the PC industry ( IDC) so not a huge part of the computer industry at all. It is a must have application for architecture students and the mac industry occupies a huge part of the computer industry.

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