solidworks

Hi All, I would love a Mac Studio M4 Max, though one program I require during my workflow is Solidworks, for engineering and manufacture drawings. Does anyone have any comments to make in relation to the feasibility/reliability of this pairing? Kind Regards, Alexander

Parallels Desktop 20.2.0 VM Windows 11 Pro (multiple versions tested) Apple M1 Max, OS Sonoma. After upgrading to Parallels Desktop 20, Solidworks graphics performance in "Shaded with Edges" mode takes a massive hit, becoming essentially unusable. Models/assemblies rotate and zoom fine in...

Hello everyone, When I try to Install SolidWorks there is the Last Step where the Installation Manager tells me that something isn't right I try this with my MacBook Air M3 and with Windows 11 I attached a file with the screenshot

When I do a single-click, I get a double click. I am not seeing it with other windows 11 applications. Solidworks 2023 SP05 Windows 11 Pro 22H2, for ARM (M2 MacBook pro) macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 Wacom 6.4.4-5

Hi. I've been trying to install SolidWorks 2023 (SP2.1) (Student Edition) on a fresh Windows 11 installation on Parallels. Keep getting a message saying "The installation folder contains data from previous SolidWorks versions" (or something along these lines). Tried installing the previous...

Hello, I'm experiencing an issue while running Solidworks on Parallels Desktop 18: Solidworks doesn't recognize the graphics card in my M1 MacBook Pro. Consequently, the 'Realview Graphics' feature in Solidworks is non-functional. Does anyone have suggestions for a workaround, or know of any...

Hello everybody, I already spend a lot of time in that issue - but I couldn't find any solution :( Description of the issues (Parallels 18 on MACBOOK PRO 16" 2019 MAC OS 13.4): The universal receiver is connected only to the VM and the SpaceMouse wireless works perfect. If I connect the CadMouse...

I am running SolidWorks 2022 SP3.1 on an M1 2020 MacMini running Windows 11. I have been using this install of Parallels to pretty much just run SolidWorks, and have been running since 2020 without issue. I started a project where I needed to use Design Tables, and because of this, you need to...

Hi all, I've just installed Solidworks connected 2023 from the 3Dexperience home with the Solidworks for Makers license. I have the issue that Solidworks is not using hardware acceleration as described here https://kb.parallels.com/en/122790. Problem is that on the KB page only Solidworks...

I have now two macs - one is Mac Pro 14" and one is older Mac Pro with i7 and AMD Radeon 5300m. On both machines I have installed same version of Parallels, same version of Solidworks with same settings. On the old Mac when I'm working in Solidworks and move cursor on edge it has orange...

FINALLY! I was able to do a standard install of SW Premium 2022 SP2 into Windows 11 ARM, running under Parallels 17.1.2 Things worked pretty well except: Turn off file sharing with the mac, otherwise you won't be ale to save files from Solidworks (with sharing on, the pathname starts with...

Hi, I am an industrial designer who uses Solidworks extensively and love the apple experience and have waited for the day Solidworks will make a product specifically for Mac. Until then, I have been trying to figure out how to use Solidworks with Parallels. I have recently installed Paralles 17...

Hi Y'all, I'm new to parallels (migrating from VMware) and SolidWorks is running slow as a dog. I let parallels do the default windows 10/11 installation and set it to "Configure for Design" allocated 16 gigs of ram and 8 processors for the VM. I know I haven't allocated too much because...

I have google drive installed on the mac side of the laptop, and when syncing a folder for offline access, whenever I try to open a solidworks file, it gives me the error saying the timestamp of the file is invalid. The only thing that fixes this is downloading the file to a different location...

Hello!!! Does anybody have working Solidworks standard 2021 (licensed) on M1? Could you share your experience and advices?

Am I able to move parallels, solidworks, and other related files from my macbook to a 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive and still be able to use them without problems occurring?

Is anyone successfully running SolidWorks 2018 or 2019 with OpenGL enabled in Parallels 14? I just upgraded my Parallels 11 to 14 and also upgraded from Win7 to Windows 10. I cannot get my SolidWorks 2018 and SolidWorks 2019 registry hack to work like it did on Parallels 11/Win7. I'm on a...

Hi, I use Solidworks in Windows10 in a VM. I'm thinking on improving GPU performance by implementing an eGPU. Which GPU would be best, the AMD RadeonPro WX7100 ou AMG Radeon Vega 56? The WX7100 is a workstation GPU but because there is no passthrough to the Virtual Environment the dedicated...

I am working on my laptop, the secondary system, which is a MacBook Pro running Parallels 13 with Windows 10 Pro and SolidWorks 2018. Prior to a Windows update yesterday, I was working on an assembly in SolidWorks 2018 which when reopening the assembly file, had no issues. Windows did an...