Hi, I wasn't sure where to post this, but most of the 'Solidworks on a Mac' discussion seems to take place here on bootcamp. A lot of the posts seem a little dated now that Leopard is out, so it would be nice to hear the latest setups running SW. Someone did mention he was going to get a MP but was waiting for the new OS.

I am about to pull the trigger on a new Mac Pro 3.0GHz Quad-Core with an Nvidia Quadro 4500 graphics card (SW certified) to run Solidworks 2008. My main goal is to do Industrial Design and be able to interface with all the other designers and engineers who I will be working with. From all the posts I've read over the last few weeks here and on other forums, it should be fine, but I'd love to hear from someone with experience running it on the same or similar platform (Mac Pro/Mac Book Pro with Windows).

Check out SOLIDWORKS System Requirements to ensure you are always working with a SOLIDWORKS supported and optimized system for hardware, operating system and. SolidWorks for Mac does not exist but there is a way to install the PC version of SolidWorks 2016, 2017 & 2018 on Mac using either Boot Camp or a virtu. You have two options for running Solidworks on Mac. 1) Bootcamp, which requires you to reboot into Windows to access Solidworks, or 2) to run a Virtual Machine. Check out SOLIDWORKS System Requirements to ensure you are always working with a SOLIDWORKS supported and optimized system for hardware, operating system and.

Many posts talk about running it on a MBP and it seems to be running well within reason. If I were to extrapolate from these posts, my setup should be fine, but I'd like to know what to look out for or what performance I can expect in the setup I will be buying. Question: Do you think my setup (Mac Pro 3.0GHz Quad-Core with an Nvidia Quadro 4500 graphics card) should be fine running SolidWorks 2008 on the Windows side?

I'd also love to know what your setup is: Computer: Mac OS: Windows OS: Graphics Card: SW version: Memory: Thanks for any insight. G4 MDD Dual 1.25 MHZ, In the future: Mac Pro 3.0GHz Quad-Core with an Nvidia Quadro 4500 Posted on Nov 27, 2007 9:22 AM. My company runs Solidworks on MacPros 3GHz, 6gig ram, Leopard each with Quadro 4500s, until the machines got stolen last week. We work with HUGE assemblies and SW seems to cope fine, but hard to compare as we only have MACs. SW freezes allot but this could be due to the complexity of our models. We run Parallels build 5160, the later builds have problems with SW.

We now have new MacPros and are waiting for the new Quardro 5600 cards and ram to arrive. Want to experiment with VMware and Bootcamp, we need to see if we can reduce the amount of restarts we have to perform. Feb 23, 2008 10:45 PM.

I almost wet myself today, because last night I read somewhere that Solidworks had been ported to Mac OS X and it was going to be announced later this year (2008). Anyway, this afternoon a Solidworks rep phoned me to ask if everything was okay with their website (don'tcha just love 'em!), and the first thing I asked her (completely not answering her original question) was; 'I hear Solidworks has been ported to Mac and will be released this year?' , which she replied; 'Yes!' Carlsbro Mixer Manual on this page.

This is the best news in ages. Apparently it will be officially announced at this year's Solidworks 2008 International Conference in Barcelona. I think this is going to be HUGE!!!! I said I almost wet myself didn't I?!?! =0) =0) =0) Mar 5, 2008 8:54 AM.

I have a MBP 1st gen that I use to run Architectural Desktop 2008 and 3dMax 9 for rendering on Vista Ultimate. Sorry, I don't use SW but thought that this info might be relevant. I've been running it without a hitch other than having complications with Vista itself which has recently been corrected. My advice would be to run Windows (any version) through Bootcamp which would make it native to the system. You would be benefitting from your Mac's config as it would utilize what you have more efficiently. My specs are as follows and I do run Leopard (phenomenal!): Model Name: MacBook Pro 15' Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,1 Processor Name: Intel Core Duo Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 2 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Mar 5, 2008 7:50 PM. I have a MBP 1st gen that I use to run Architectural Desktop 2008 and 3dMax 9 for rendering on Vista Ultimate.

Sorry, I don't use SW but thought that this info might be relevant. I've been running it without a hitch other than having complications with Vista itself which has recently been corrected. My advice would be to run Windows (any version) through Bootcamp which would make it native to the system. You would be benefitting from your Mac's config as it would utilize what you have more efficiently. My specs are as follows and I do run Leopard (phenomenal!): Model Name: MacBook Pro 15' Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,1 Processor Name: Intel Core Duo Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 2 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Mar 5, 2008 7:53 PM.