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Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

Rahul — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:49:26 -0000

ITS not the way to install solid works on mac but you are telling the way to intall the sucking windows on macbooks and install solidworks on windows on macbook...

windows sucks. installing windows will make us lose the ambience of mac..

windows sucks again...

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

Nicholas Barker — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:09:45 -0000

Hello

I just upgraded to SolidWorks 4.1 Professional from 3.1 Standard. I am running it on a MacBook Pro and until the upgrade things ran flawlessly. Now SW is locking up and I have no idea why. I don't know if the latest service pack is the cause or the fact that I moved up to the professional version.
I am a designer not a tech person so I am at a loss and now in the process of uninstalling the latest service pack and reinstalling the 3.1 version. I will first try to keep the professional version I just paid for but if the porblem persists I will try to downgrade back to SolidWorks Standard.

any advice?

thanks

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

NuclearNerd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:05:55 -0000

No sir. Many of us mac users have been hoping for an OS X version of Solidworks for years. I thought sure when they released a native edrawings client for the Mac that Solidworks would be next. It's not looking likely though. Luckily licenses of Windows can be found for.. cheap.., and your Mac makes an excellent part-time Windows box.

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

joshmings — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:34:08 -0000

You can also use Parallels or VMWare.

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

rahul singh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:59:56 -0000

isn't there any way to use solidworks on mac without innstalling windows on it..
windows sucks and i don't want windows on my mac.

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

ruderko — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:23:16 -0000

ups, sry, i meant can i do that with parallels? or does it just work with bootcamp??

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

ruderko — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:20:54 -0000

hey guys, can anybody plz explain to me, can i work in solidworks on a mac book pro 2.5 ghz intel core duo, 4gb ram, 667mhz ddr2 sdram?
coz as i understand it, if i install bootcamp i have to be either in wndows or in osx, and to swap i have to shut down the computer?

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

ihatewatches — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:37:18 -0000

This needs to be updated. Nvidia released the quadro fx 4800 for mac with built in bootcamp drivers back in April. And is an approved Solidworks card. Problem solved, keep your beer.

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

larrySampson — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:11:25 -0000

Also many of the comments above refer to using XP, and Solidworks is dropping XP support on the next version, so should we wait for MS2007 and skip the Vista install?

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

larrysampson — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:41:45 -0000

From what I can tell Mac's typically come with less memory than a PC. If you are running vista with bootcamp it seems like it would be likely memory could become a problem. I consistently push 3 GB on my PC. True? I the stability any better considering you still need to run vista? I would characterize my current stability as crappy. The official line from Solidworks is that my video card is unsupported, but I know people with supported hardware that have the same problems.

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

olegshilovitsky — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:02:25 -0000

Josh, I'm getting error from sldim. Looks like it cannot run from V:\ or something similar. I just got advise from SolidWorks folks to copy CD/DVD with installation to HDD and run from there... I will try to do it tomorrow and update about my results.
Best, Oleg

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

joshmings — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:27:47 -0000

Oleg, just saw your question. Were you able to get it to install? do you get any messages when you try?

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

joshmings — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:55:48 -0000

hmmm, I'm almost sure it has to do with the middle mouse setting on the windows mouse. have you tried installing the mouse driver?

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

carmenvertullo — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:41:01 -0000

I have SW running on my macbook pro under parallels.
4 gig of ram.

Cannot get the mouse to spin parts. Brings up the mac dashboard when I hold the mouse button.
I have tried the mac mouse and a USB windows mouse.
When I try the windows mouse alone, I cannot see the cursor.

Any ideas?

Thanks

CarVer

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

olegshilovitsky — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:28:34 -0000

I'm trying to install SW 2009 on MBP with Parallels/Vista. SolidWorks installer can't run... Any ideas?

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

Agustina Marquez — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:40:51 -0000

Hi, I have installed SolidWorks 2008 on my MacBook but from time to time some problems occured. Latelly I´m experiencing a kind of suspention of my systems while working on Solidworks. Also have a bad time trying to take advantage of my mac keyboard since it differs from the regular windows keyboard. Storing from time to time brings me some problems too. I´m not sure if the problem is SolidWorks on bootcamp or the partition I have on my MacBook or using the MacBook, i just have 1 GB of RAM, is this enough?. Hope you can help me. Kind regards. Agustina (Argentina)

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

Jeff Sherman — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:57:26 -0000

Hello, I am considering purchasing a new imac 24", 2.9ghz duo, 4GB Ram, with the new Nvidia GT 130 graphics card to run SW 2009. Does anyone have any experience with this graphics card? I have seen enough posts to convince me that previous mac graphics cards would have been just fine for my needs (I don't need realview), but wanted to confirm that there isn't anything funky about this next generation of cards before I make the purchase. Is it possible to soft-mod the the imac cards in the same way as described for the laptop cards?
Thanks in advance for any help.
-Jeff

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

Neil — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:06:19 -0000

What should the parttion be when I am running bootcamp If i want to use solid works?

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

joshmings — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:33:07 -0000

I'm not familiar with the Parallels interface or where to adjust space allocation. Perhaps another person wathing this thread has an answer?

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

Amber Chamberlain — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:39:33 -0000

Question,

When I install Solid works on Parallels it says I only hace 511MG of RAM. How do I reorganize things so it recognizes that I have more than that so I can actually run Solid works?

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

Rob — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:30:13 -0000

Hi I'm looking for a laptop that will run sw for about 2000. The MacBook seems like a good choice. Note the sw I have someone gave me it's the 2007 version. I'm looking to get 2008 later. My ? Is will a macbook run with little to no problems. If the macbook works what do I need to spend on windows when runing bootcamp. Thanks for taking the time to answer my ?s.

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

Wang — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:47:46 -0000

This is still running Solidworks on Windows, not really on Mac OS. IMO, there is still a very long way to go for Mac to be widely adopted by engineers and scientific researchers.

Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

dmoore1 — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:45:14 -0000

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Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

drsistem — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:54:12 -0000

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Re: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac

olgr — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:50:02 -0000

I installed XP again in Boot camp and run Solidworks. I've been working for almost 3 hours and no problems at all. Maybe I had something wrong last time I tried (usual on windows, though).

By the way, in comparison to Parallels, Solidworks flies under boot camp!

Thanks for the comments and the help guys.

Regards.