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People often ask if it is possible to run SolidWorks on a Mac – the good news is you can. We know quite a few users running SolidWorks successfully on a Mac. The bad news is that it isn’t supported by SolidWorks There are no version of SolidWorks written for Mac OS, however there are versions of available for Mac OS. A change in Mac OS or an upgrade to SolidWorks may suddenly give you major headache. We would always recommend running SolidWorks on a Windows PC. However if you have to run SolidWorks on a Mac read on:- Running SolidWorks on a Mac means you are making compromises on speed, functionality and stability.
SolidWorks is only supported when:-. Running on Microsoft operating systems. With SolidWorks 2014 that means running Windows 7 or 8 operating systems. It also means you have to buy a copy of the Windows operating system. Running with a supported graphics card (more of this later). The operating system on a Mac is called “Mac OS” and there are 2 ways of running Windows 7/8 on a Mac:-. Bootcamp.
Parallels Bootcamp This is the preferred method – it effectively runs Windows on your computer instead of Mac OS. In effect you end up with 1 computer with a choice of 2 operating systems. When you boot up your Mac you have to choose to run either Mac OS or Windows. Boot Camp Assistant creates a partition just for Windows, leaving your existing OS X volume intact. It is free to install but you do have to buy a copy of your preferred windows operating system.
Note: It is important you only use “bootcamp assistant” to create this windows partition. See Parallels Parallels software can be installed on your Mac OS. It allows you to run a “virtual” copy of a Windows operating system at the same time as running your Mac OS. In our case we would use Parallels to run a “Virtual PC”. The “Virtual PC” would then run Windows 7/ 8 on which SolidWorks can ultimately run.
You need to buy Parallels and a copy of Windows7/8 for this solution. Running Parallels on a Mac is a really convenient and you can fairly seamlessly switch between Windows and Mac OS when needed. Unfortunately it really stretches the capabilities of most machines to run, both Mac OS and Windows, as well as a heavy duty program like SolidWorks at the same time. It also introduces an extra level of software to “go wrong”. Certainly running via Parallels is slower and more prone to crashing SolidWorks than the Bootcamp solution. Graphics Cards You need to be running a supported graphics card to get the most out of SolidWorks. Only a few cards are supported by SolidWorks NVIDA sell a range of supported graphics cards called “Quadro” (the exception is the Quadro NVS which is unsupported).
Most NVidia cards are from their GeForce range, which are not supported. ATI sell as range of graphics cards called “FireGL” which are supported. Most ATI cards are from their Radeon range, which are not supported. Not many Macs come with supported graphics card. No MacBook or MacBook Pros have supported cards.
If you run via Parallels you are running a “virtual” graphics card driver. There is currently no way to install the correct Nvidia Quadro or ATi Fire drivers required by SolidWorks via Parallels even if you have a supported card.
You have to use the generic Parallels virtual driver. The virtual driver is much slower than using the correct driver running on a normal Windows PC or laptop. Without a supported card you won’t get some feature such as the looking glass, RealView etc to work. Users have also reported items temporarily disappearing after you rotate/zoom/Pan e.g. Dimension text. Finally, without a supported card SolidWorks is less stable and more prone to crashing. If you are plagued by stability/display issues its worth running SolidWorks with the option “Software OpenGL” turned on.
Start SolidWorks without any document loaded and select “ Tools, Options, System Options, Performance, use Software OpenGL”. This option above, calculate the graphics using your processor and a standard library, rather than the graphics card and graphics driver. This is slower but it can provide improve stability and a more reliable display. If you have any more questions or would like us to spec you up a machine to run SolidWorks on please refer to, or contact us via one of our web forms.
Right i just gave it a shot and it works great, so intel Mac users give this a shot: run uTorrent native on you intel mac Make sure you have installed X11 (wich is on your install DVD) How to: get Darwine here: and mount it the diskimage drag the Darwine folder to your Applications folder Download uTorrent from here: Double click the installer and away you go! Running on my MacBook Pro [email protected] it takes less then 1% cpu. Now when you quit the application you can start it again by starting WineHelper.app (in the darwine folder) and then open or ( command+o) select uTorrent in the Program Files and w00t your back again, Now letting uTorrent save all the data in the right place is your own concern (hint your 'Mac' is / ) Screenshot: The only.bug. I've found is that WineHelper sometimes freezes after uTorrent has started, you can safely force quit it after uTorrent has started. In CrossOver Office, the settings directory was located at /Library/Application Data/Crossover/BOTTLENAME/drivec/windows/profiles/USERNAME/Applications Data/uTorrent, where BOTTLENAME is the name of the Bottle you are using, and USERNAME is your username on the operating system. Maybe you can try looking around in the Library directory for the Darwine configuration directory?
Remember that this is the Library directory for your profile, not for the system. And um, if you can't find it, (if possible) make it so that Finder can see invisible/hidden files - directories that start with a dot/period are hidden by default, IINM. Anyway, when you do find the files, you need to drop webui.zip into that directory. Ultima, I have installed it according to the README and for those things I'm pretty thorough. Anyway, Darwine works like this: When started first time /.wine (indeed invisible;-) ) is made, and the applications are installed in /.wine/drivec/Program Files/ I placed the webui.zip in /.wine/drivec/Program Files/uTorrent/ so that I've done right I believe I'm quite handy with the commandline interface. Anyway I dont need the webinterface and uTorrent is fine on my Mac without it. I was just curious if it would work (curiosity kills the cat, right?
Graphical oddities: There are several oddities in the interface running µTorrent under Wine. So far I haven't really tested it, but all the 'bugs' you have mentioned above I can confirm, and I have had one lockup while testing the beta with the webui, I had to force quit X11 and restart the application. So I can say, if you like uTorrent its very usable on an intel Mac but whan you want to have a 'doubleclick' application this is not for you. It certainly needs a lot more development under Darwine to get seemless integration of windows application in your OSX enviroment.
The big advantage of uTorrent is that its very low on resources and ram usage compared to for instance Azureus. People who hate Azureus because of being a resources hog will have a very nice alternative with uTorrent. IMHO there are only a few decent torrent clients for OSX wich are: the original Bittorrent.app, Azureus.app and now for intel Mac uTorrent. All other clients I have tried are either too agressive to trackers or are just nor configureable enough for my needs. I think the webui is a very nice feature! Sorry to resurrect an old topic, but it seems pertinent. I'm running uTorrent using X11 and the Winehelper on an Intel Mac, with no problems apart from setting up the WebGUI.
When I try to go to /.wine/drivec/windows/profiles/USERNAME/Applications Data/uTorrent, there is no Applications Data folder in my username folder. However the Program Files folder does contain settings.dat, but unsurprisingly webgui doesn't work when the zip file is placed in there.
Can anybody help with this? As I've been writing this post, it occured to me that perhaps Darwine should be installed in Applications and not /Applications.
I'm not at my Mac to test that at the moment - would it make a difference?