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Mr. Mac, Autodesk will see you now

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Support for the Mac running Revit 2010 in Boot Camp is now officially recognized by Autodesk. Never thought this day would actually arrive. A cool breeze must be running through the halls at AEC HQ today. Despite what the Apple ads say, it really is a PC, it just happens to be an Apple PC. It’s a PC that I’ve enjoyed using for over two years now and the experience has been nothing short of awesome.

A few diehards at the factory have been testing and kicking the tires for a while now. A little leprechaun told me that even a Revit programmer or two use a Macbook Pro, similar to my own for their everyday work. So, to the rest of you… it’s alright now, you can step out into the light.

Mind you this support is only for running Boot Camp, but hey it’s a start. I’ve been using VMWare Fusion since I got this machine, and it’s alright for training and occasional demos. Now, if virtualization was good enough to use on projects day to day, that would be a whole different ball game.

Read the rest of the story here: The Revit Clinic: Take a bite of that Apple.

Autodesk Download Manager

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Believe it or not, this new Autodesk download manager tool not only seems to be speedy, but works in Safari, on a Mac no less. Wow, was that a pleasant surprise. Now that many of the new products are available for a free trial download, simply itchy waiting for my physical DVDs to arrive, and being the major geek that I am I thought – let’s give it a whirl. Low and behold, it worked.

OK, so the image points to the soon to be announced evidence that I am not solely dedicated to Revit. There are many customers out there, who still use and love AutoCAD Architecture. There’s a project in the works, which I’ll discuss when the time is right which involves ACA 2010, and training. Now, where was that line command again? Just kidding.

Download Manager

Exhibit A.

Earlier in the week, I also successfully logged into my Autodesk Subscription account through Safari, and there was no hint of the typical warnings of browser compatibility. Now, we just need to work on that pesky legacy Buzzsaw accessibility.

Kudos to the marketing and web teams at Autodesk for increasing support for browsers other than IE. Job well done.

Taking the plunge

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I, like some others out there have decided to join the Apple Mac community. I’m testing out my new MacBook Pro with VmWare Fusion running Windows XP Pro and Revit 2009. The key to running any OS in virtualization is to dedicate the right amount of RAM. Based on many recommendations, I’ve decided that the RAM and hard-drive speed were the two areas worthy of spending my dough. This arrangement runs so much faster than all previous workstation-quality laptops I’ve used. The beta version of Fusion 2 looks promising in that there will be more sophisticated (but still experimental according to the documentation) video drivers. I will post the results from my benchmarking tests in a future post.