Autodesk announces Parallel Desktop agreement

An Autodesk product story

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Sep 29, 2009

Autodesk has announced it will make Parallels Desktop its preferred Mac virtualisation software.

Parallels Desktop is now supported by Autodesk to facilitate the use of Autocad software, Autocad LT software, Autodesk Inventor Professional software, Autodesk 3ds Max software, Autodesk 3ds Max Design software and the Autodesk Revit software platform for building information modelling (BIM) on Mac OS X.

Autodesk added official support for these products on the Mac via Boot Camp earlier this year.

"Autodesk customers are increasingly working with both Mac and Windows, and have asked us to support Mac virtualisation," said Chris Bradshaw, Autodesk chief marketing officer.

"Parallels Desktop for Mac enables over two million users to run Windows-based applications seamlessly and simply on their Mac," said Serguei Beloussov, chief executive officer of Parallels.