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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

What's funny?

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

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

very very funny :P

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.

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

dmoore1 — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:51:17 -0000

If it's a Core2Duo it has 64-bit capability.

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

Musick7 — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:36:43 -0000

I use an iMac intel 2.4Ghz with 2600HD video card has 256 ram on board and the iMac has just 2Gig of ram
I use Student Edition of SolidWorks 2009 and MasterCam X3 and Have No problem at all! Never once has it crashed or acted like it cant handle it.... Hope this helps
Waiting for Snow Leopard 64bit! If I have read the info right my machine is able to run 64bit.... Anyone confirm that? But as I read it you only need 2Gig of ram nothing more nothing less. Its designed to work with 2Ghz and scream like you had more.
Anyone confirm that or give me better info or website to read more about this....?

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

Harlan — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:31:20 -0000

IF anyone has any thinks a Mac cant run SolidWorks or MasterCam X3 your DEAD wrong! I have a 20" iMac 2.4GHz with an ATI 2600HD Video Card. I have been using SOLIDWORKS and MasterCam X3 Demo on my Machine for awhile now. IT WORKS FINE! I didn't have to Download any new drivers or anything special. I installed Boot Camp and Up and running in no time!!
Oh by the way I have installed XP on several different PC computers and NEVER in my life has it been so easy to install XP on a computer. It took all of 15 min to install XP on my Mac. BOOTCAMP should be used on the windows side for installing the os. Maybe then the headache of having to reinstall windows every time you get a Virus wouldn't be such a headache.

* You know when we go to Heaven OS X is whats used *

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

olgr — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:34:51 -0000

Thanks for the reply Dave.

I will try reinstalling XP and Solidworks and tell you if it works.

Anyway, has anyone managed to run Solidworks on a 2GB RAM unibody macbook?

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

dmoore1 — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:44:44 -0000

SW runs great on Bootcamp. You won't have RealView on any of the unibody Macbooks, but SW does run.

Win XP 32 will recognize a maximum of 3.5GB RAM. Half of that is reserved for the operating system. When you install 4GB Windows ignores anything above its native address space.

I'm running SW'09 on a unibody Macbook Pro with 4GB RAM. My Bootcamp partition is Vista 64.

Try reinstalling, maybe it was just a fluke that you couldn't get SW to run.

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

olgr — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:43:57 -0000

Hi everyone,

I've got a unibody Macbook (2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, OS X 10.5.7), and I need Solidworks at university. The problem being is that I can just run it on my Macbook through Parallels or VMWare, as Solidworks crashes under Boot camp (I get a blue screen). I've searched many sites for a solution, because Solidworks doesn't work really smoothly under Parallels or VMWare. To my surprise, though, yesterday a friend of mine in university managed to install Windows SP 2 on her Macbook and run Solidworks without crashing. We opened some assemblies (which in my computer under bootcamp would make Solidworks crash) and it worked really well, just as you would expect. Her Macbook is the same as mine (unibody 2GHz Core 2 Duo), but hers has got 4 GB RAM. So, what's the reason for that? I can only think of two reasons:

1. She's got 4 GB RAM, as opposed to me and many Macbook users who have 2 GB. However, it is really strange because I think Win XP (32 bit) only recognizes a maximum of 2 GB RAM, so having more than 2 GB installed on the computer shouldn't make any difference when running Win XP under Boot camp.

2. She might have updated to Mac OS X 10.5.7, which in some way improves the graphic cards behaviour. But honestly I really doubt it, as the OS X 10.5.7 update log in the Apple website doesn't say anything about any improvements in graphic cards or in Boot camp. Moreover, I don't know if she has upgraded to OS X 10.5.7 yet or if she's still with 10.5.6.

I'm writing all this because as many of you said Solidworks can't run on unibody Macbooks under Boot camp. Does anybody have 4 GB RAM and succeeded to run Solidworks under Boot camp?

I'm really confused, because my friend and I have identical computers and while she can run Solidworks under boot camp I can't!

The problem is that I deleted my Boot camp partition and I don't have my Win XP installation disc with me, so until I get my installation disc back I won't be able to try anything.

By the way, sorry if my English is not really good or weird, as I'm not a native English speaker. If anything was not clear enough ask me and I'll try to explain it better.

I'm really looking forward to any responses!

Regards.

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

William Carr — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:52:44 -0000

" the first O/S to fail virus attempts within hours of being subjected to everyday virus attempts (malicious website or link in an email)"

Perhaps you should get someone to explain to you what a "virus" is.

The hacking contest you refer to did try to affect the computers remotely and failed in all instances.

Only on the second day, after being allowed to touch the computer and surf to a rigged website was the Mac laptop compromised. And it went first only because the hacker specifically WANTED the Mac laptop.

He went on to say that he could have hacked any browser but Chrome, no matter what the operating system or the manufacturer of the computer.

Now, the important part: this is NOT a virus. This is a web browser exploit.

Not a virus, see? A virus is a self-replicating program that can compromise a computer, generally without needing to trick the user into loading the virus.

If the hacker had come up with a virus that can affect OS X, that WOULD be impressive. But he didn't.

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

Skippy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0000

So Ive taken a look at the drivers and updated to the approriate ones and still no real view. I guess I will have to go without.

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

Skippy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:05:34 -0000

Running Windows xp on the bootcamp, no virtual stuff decided to stay clear of that for now. Read lots of reports and got some mixed message's. Have been on the web and found the ATI down load doctor thing, www.downloadyourdriver.com Have decided to give this a try to see if the latest driver is on my machine for the ATI-Radeon HD2600 pro. a little bit of information I picked up from Alan

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

joshmings — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:48:37 -0000

Do you have some details on your setup? I've checked with others and they're not having problems. What computer, OS version are you running? bootcamp, vmware or parallels?

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

joshmings — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:56:23 -0000

OOOooo, that does not sound good at all. I'll have to check with my peeps runnin' Macs to see what is up. Thanks for the heads-up.

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

Skippy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:48:54 -0000

Very interested, loaded SW2009 SP3 and lost my real view graphics, it would be nice to replace it!

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

Skippy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:28:38 -0000

Yesterday I loaded on SW 2009 SP3 and now I have no realview graphics. I too run SW on a boot camp partition with an ATI-Radeon HD2600. Real view graphics worked ok for me on SW2008 and 2009 SP2.1. So should I have a go at trying to modify my graphics card. I am not much of tech-no when it comes to this sort of stuff, so I hope its easy. Does anyone else run SW on 24"imac

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

lantzn — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:27:19 -0000

You might try hacking the nVidia card into a Quadro.

http://www.solidsmack.com/run-solidworks-on-a-m...

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

dmoore1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:04:16 -0000

Programs are not going to run any different than on an equivalent PC. It's still Windows, just on a Mac. Which is unholy to begin with, but don't get me started.

To install XP with Bootcamp you MUST have an SP2 installation disc, either OEM or retail. If you're running through a VM, Parallels or Fusion, you can run XP SP1. SW performance sucks on a VM unless you've got a quad or oct core MacPro with lots of RAM.

What are the specs on your iMac? I have one of the new MBPros, 2.5GHz with 4GB RAM, and SW runs great. Not workstation great, but it gets the job done very well. As far as handling large assemblies that's RAM dependent. If you have a Core2Duo I'd be running Vista64 for better memory management.

Depending on which graphics chipset you have you can do the Quaddro softmod to get RealView.

Good luck.