Will Soildworks work on the new MacBook Pros with either the M3 Pro (32GB) or M4 Pro (24GB)?
I am under the assumption that I will still need to run Parallels on the Mac but how much will that compromise the performance of Soildworks 2025?
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I personally don’t recommend this. Have attempted to do this with VMWare Fusion on a M4 Mac, able to work on simple parts but once you have slightly bigger assembly or parts with moderate number of patterns and/or surfaces, it became almost unworkable, kind of like remote desktop to a low cost PC that runs Solidworks over the internet.
Suggest to buy a cheap PC (desktop or laptop) with Intel 12th gen and above (or equivalent) + 16Gb RAM. It would most likely perform much better than your Mac option, even with intergraded GPU. Solidworks running on a workstation PC like Dell Precision in the same price bracket as a M3/M4 Pro Mac can just accept almost anything you can throw at it. I’m simply sharing from my own experience.
I personally don’t recommend this. Have attempted to do this with VMWare Fusion on a M4 Mac, able to work on simple parts but once you have slightly bigger assembly or parts with moderate number of patterns and/or surfaces, it became almost unworkable, kind of like remote desktop to a low cost PC that runs Solidworks over the internet.
Suggest to buy a cheap PC (desktop or laptop) with Intel 12th gen and above (or equivalent) + 16Gb RAM. It would most likely perform much better than your Mac option, even with intergraded GPU. Solidworks running on a workstation PC like Dell Precision in the same price bracket as a M3/M4 Pro Mac can just accept almost anything you can throw at it. I’m simply sharing from my own experience.
https://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2024/11/how-to-run-solidworks-on-a-mac.html
--last updated Nov 18, 2024
Will SoildWorks work on the new M3 Pro or M4 Pro MacBook Pro?
