- #HOW TO INSTALL SOLIDWORKS 2017 ON A VIRTUALBOX HOW TO#
- #HOW TO INSTALL SOLIDWORKS 2017 ON A VIRTUALBOX DRIVER#
- #HOW TO INSTALL SOLIDWORKS 2017 ON A VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS 8#
If you run into any issues trying to get this to work, please leave a comment or drop me a line and I'd be happy to help out. Whether you have a Mac for "religious" reasons or require the platform for similar reasons as I do (hardware quality and application preferences only on OSX), this solution will make the SolidWorks experience in Bootcamp at par with most Windows-based laptops. I have spoken to hundreds of people that are already running SolidWorks on their Macs via Bootcamp or even using Parallels or Fusion to get their jobs done. However, I can personally say that I have been able to successfully do this since 2006 and my Mac laptops have been some of the fastest systems I have owned to date. It's understandable that SolidWorks has to limit the scope of support to exclude this configuration from its supported list (as they do for some builds of Windows).
#HOW TO INSTALL SOLIDWORKS 2017 ON A VIRTUALBOX HOW TO#
I get 20-30 emails a year asking me how to do this and I wanted to share it with all of you that are using a Mac and running SolidWorks. Now that that is out of the way, here are the bits you were after. If you don't have a need to use a Mac, don't buy one. I think it is also safe to say that someone whom uses a Mac has it for reasons beyond just using SolidWorks and want the ability to use the same machine for any application, Windows, Linux, or Mac. Disclaimer.Ī word or warning though, as you all know SolidWorks still states very clearly on its system requirements page that: Apple Macintosh®-based machines running Windows using Boot Camp are not supported. The good news is the hacking is over and there is a simple way to enable RealView on your Mac. The other issue was simply the earlier video cards in the various Mac lines were very under powered and tuning was necessary to handle the graphics load of SolidWorks. This method was necessary to meet the requirements on the "Approved" SolidWorks video card testing site in order to unlock the RealView functionality.
#HOW TO INSTALL SOLIDWORKS 2017 ON A VIRTUALBOX DRIVER#
On the first builds I had to use Riva Tuner from to build a hacked or "tuned" driver that enabled the pro series features on my "gamer card" that ships with the Macbook Pro. Saying that the playing field has changed a bit would be an understatement to say the least!
#HOW TO INSTALL SOLIDWORKS 2017 ON A VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS 8#
Apple has changed video cards, video card manufacturers and Microsoft has shipped 32/64 bit XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and now Windows 8.1. Over the years I have gone to great lengths to run SolidWorks on my Mac without limits, including support for RealView. I have been doing this since 2006 and have run all the SolidWorks products on 4 different Apple Macbook Pros from the first Core2 MBP in 2006 to the newest Macbook Pro Retina now running Windows 8.1. Since then we all know the story and anyone can get Windows running on a Mac in a number of configurations without much effort. When Apple switched their architecture from PowerPC to Intel in 2005 the race was on to get Windows running on Apple hardware without emulation.
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