“Of all the ways to run Windows on a Mac, Parallels Desktop is my favorite because it just works. It's fast, it's reliable, and there's no need to futz about with confusing setting or convoluted setup processes.”Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet “Unlike Apple’s Boot Camp, Parallels lets you run both operating systems at the same time.”Larry Magid, Forbes ”Parallels Desktop is the easiest, fastest, and most tightly integrated app for running Windows apps or the Windows desktop in Apple OS X.”Edward Mendelson, PCMag.com “It’s always been astonishing that it’s faster to start up a Parallels PC than a real one. On my MacBook Air, I’m up and running in Windows six seconds after I double-click the Parallels icon.”David Pogue, Yahoo Tech “The latest version of Parallels, the popular Windows virtualization tool for Mac OS X, almost feels like its trolling Apple.”Engadget “The software has been iterating over a decade and now makes Windows feel like part of the macOS. You can also virtualize Linux, Android, and just about anything that runs on Intel chips including another instance of macOS—great for testing macOS Betas!”9to5Mac.
Open Windows applications side by side with your macOS applications, without having to restart your Mac. Copy and paste text or drag and drop objects between Mac and Windows. Run Windows games and other 3D applications. Transfer all your data from a PC and use it on your Mac. Easily share files, devices, and other resources between Windows and Mac. Install other operating systems, such as trial versions of Windows, Linux, another copy of macOS, and free virtual appliances—and use them together. And much more.
There are several ways to install Windows (or any other operating system) in a virtual machine, and Parallels Desktop makes it easy to get started within minutes.If you need Windows on your Mac, Parallels Desktop can help you download and install Windows 10. All you need to do is follow our Installation Assistant and click “Install Windows.”Or you can provide your own Microsoft Windows license key, purchase Windows directly from within Parallels Desktop, or transfer an existing Boot Camp partition with Windows already installed.
Launch SolidWorks. Before you open a document: 5.1. Click Options (Standard toolbar) or Tools Options. Select Performance. Make sure 'Use Software OpenGL' option is unchecked. To undo all registry changes: Make sure SolidWorks is not running.
Running SOLIDWORKS on a Mac 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 versions of SOLIDWORKS that are written for Mac OS and OS X, 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 2019, that means running Windows 10 or Windows 7 operating systems.
However, Windows 7 will only be supported until the end of the 2020 release, so we recommend going with Windows 10. 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 two ways of running Windows 10 on a Mac:-.
Boot Camp. Parallels. 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 “boot camp assistant” to create this windows partition. ParallelsParallels 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 10 on which SOLIDWORKS can ultimately run.
You need to buy Parallels and a copy of Windows 10 for this solution. 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.Certain workarounds do exist to allow. 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”.The option above calculates 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.
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