Parallels is officially supported by Autodesk as the virtualization software. I use Parallels 7 to virtualize Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit on top of the Mac OS enabling me to use Revit, Navisworks, even 3ds Max in a seamless environment with my Mac apps.
But what about the other Autodesk products, what about Revit? For this problem there is a solution and like I said I’ve been using it for 3 months now and am pretty happy about it. AutoCAD for Mac re-released in 2011 and AutoCAD LT for Mac this year are now part of its entire software offering. Autodesk’s products which have been adopted by architects, engineers, and contractors almost as a standard are all developed for Microsoft Windows. In the case of the AEC industry there has been one very large problem why we haven’t seen many Apple computers used in the workplace before – Autodesk. As IT, notorious for their iron like grip over its end user’s workstations, devices, and software, start adopting more Apple devices this trend will gain even more traction. Case in point, the last engineering firm I visited here in Portland the IT director had a Macbook Air in hand as we toured the office physically and virtually, remoting into workstations as needed. iMacs, Macbook Pros, Mac Pros, machines once only seen in the hands of design professionals can now be seen in all industries.
This shift has been increasingly referred to as the consumerization of IT. Apple first infiltrated the enterprise market with its mobile devices and has been steadily carving away at the PC share. With more developers writing apps for both Windows and Mac OS X and huge leaps in virtualization technology Apple products are popping up everywhere. Like Apple says Mac OS X is the most advanced operating system in the world. I’ve been loving using our Mac secretly I hope the Dell can’t be fixed :). Well it’s been about 3 months now since my Dell M6300 had to be sent out for service and I switched to our iMac as my main workstation. Posted on JanuAuthor: Derek Wielkopolski Autodesk, Ideate Inc.
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