Solidworks, on a mac? Solidworks will not work on a Mac. When you take computer aided design your school will most likely give you a VPN to use and download. We are often asked if it is possible to run SOLIDWORKS on a Mac computer – the answer is YES you can. We know quite a few users running SOLIDWORKS successfully on a Mac and SOLIDWORKS recently updated their system requirements to include virtualisation such as parallels. However the limit of this support is that although it will install, it may not run well due to the lack of supported graphics card and therefore graphics acceleration. We therefore would NOT recommend this setup above a Windows based professional workstation. SOLIDWORKS do develop several applications that are available for OS X and iOS. This includes for OS X, as well as and for iOS. Is also available for OS X as a beta version. Although will run on OS X there are some major considerations to be aware of: • Installation The process for running SOLIDWORKS on a mac isn’t as simple as installing and activating the software. Since SOLIDWORKS is not developed for OS X, you’ll first need to install Windows on your OS X device using an application such as Bootcamp or Parallels. • Graphics Performance Once you do get SOLIDWORKS running, you may notice that the graphics performance is not on par with Windows workstations, especially if you’re using a Macbook. This is because Apple do not offer laptops with workstation-grade video cards, such as the NVIDIA Quadro and ATI FirePro lines. These cards have drivers that support a technology called OpenGL, which SOLIDWORKS uses extensively. This means some display options like RealView aren’t supported when used with Apple laptops (Mac Pro desktops are available with these cards). There are some workarounds for this but again these are not supported by SOLIDWORKS or Solid Solutions. Your best bet for help with Paralels is their own support particularly their but are not officially supported by SOLIDWORKS and involves manual edits to the registry do so at your own risk and can cause issues with certain fucntions such as draft analysis.
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