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Autodesk Expands Support for Mac Users

Posted by Shane Griffith, 21 July 2009 2:19 pm

We are seeing a growing number of customers using Apple hardware and many have requested support from Autodesk to use our applications on that platform. Autodesk is now officially supporting Apple Boot Camp, a component of the Mac OSX operating system that enables customers to run Windows on their Apple Hardware, for users of AutoCAD 2010 software, 3ds Max 2010 software, 3ds Max Design 2010 software, Autodesk Inventor 2010 software, Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 software, Autodesk Revit Structure 2010 software and Autodesk Revit MEP 2010 software. This will enable you to run 3ds Max at full speed on a Mac and leverage its native graphics capabilities. We know some customers have been successfully running 3ds Max under Boot Camp for years, so we’re pleased to finally offer official support. Autodesk also offers a number of products that natively support Mac OSX, see www.autodesk.com/mac for more details.

There are known issues when accessing the application through a virtualization environment so I would caution you to not do this. Accessing the Boot Camp partition and launching 3ds Max via a VM will likely result in your license information becoming corrupt and eventually timeout. We are currently working to extend support for the same products currently supported via Boot Camp to a virtualization environment.

Apple® Boot Camp Support for Autodesk® 3ds Max®

4 Comments

Dustin Brown

Posted 23 July 2009 12:59 am

Yep, Max is the one program keeping me from saying goodbye to Windows forever, and there's little sense in using Max in Windows and doing everything else in OSX, so I just stay in Windows. It kind of sucks being held hostage by one program like that thought. I'm still using XP32 because XP64 driver support is poor, and Vista...don't even get me started on Vista. If Win7 ends up being another disappointment I'm switching to Maya so I can finally work in OSX like I want to.

mahi

Posted 26 July 2009 11:28 pm

Make it happen Autodesk. While you are re-writing Max to be more streamlined and fast, you can take the time to make it run on a mac.

juanpablohoyos

Posted 27 July 2009 12:34 am

hi guys, i run windows vista on my mac pro 8 core 2.8ghz with 6gb of ram and 256 of vram, ther is no problem running 3ds max 2010 or 2009 or 2008 with vray sp1 2 3 all run fine, just have to install windows using bootcamp, this software come with mac os x 10.5 leopard and you have to buy your copy of windows vista 64bits orwindows xp 64 bits and install the drivers that came in the dvd install of mac os x (the gray dvd number 1) that came with your machine or if you have a mac pro that came with mac os x 10.4 tiger you have to upgrade first because boocamp is unsuported on tiger.

Shane Griffith

Posted 27 July 2009 2:09 pm

Re writing 3ds Max to be native on the Mac is indeed a considerable investment that would come at the cost of adding or improving anything for the majority of users on the Windows platform.

Our qualification team has not noticed any performance loss when running 3ds Max on a Mac via Bootcamp. it is the same as running any other computer in Windows (minus the keyboard).

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