![]() Parallels will then start to download Windows 11 from Microsoft.If you’re using an Apple Silicon M1, M2 or M3 Mac it will download and install Windows 11 ARM. Parallels will then automatically download and Install Windows 11 when you click Install Windows. ![]() Parallels will ask permissions to access your Mac Desktop, Downloads and Documents folders.Parallels will now download the installer and then prompt you for your Mac admin username and password to continue the setup.Double click on the Parallels download and when prompted by macOS click “Open” and then click “Accept” on the End User License Agreement.For running SolidWorks on a Mac, we strongly recommend getting Parallels Pro because it gives you much more control over how many resources you your Mac allocates to Parallels which is very important in an application as resource hungry as SolidWorks. You can use the free trial to try it first. Download Parallels for Mac and run the installer.With this in mind, here is our recommended way to use SolidWorks on a Mac. Generally, we don’t recommend using older Intel Macs to run SolidWorks as it doesn’t run half as well as using Parallels on Apple Silicon. It can’t run Windows and macOS at the same time.Īlthough Boot Camp allows your Mac to devote all of its resources to running SolidWorks (thus in theory giving you smoother performance) both the latest Apple Silicon Macs and virtual machines have become more powerful in processing speed and RAM meaning SolidWorks now works better in a virtual machine than Boot Camp. With Boot Camp, you also have to shutdown your Mac in order to use Windows. It also does not work on Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3 Macs though so it’s not an option to run SolidWorks on Apple Silicon. Boot Camp (Intel Macs only – not available on Apple Silicon Macs)īoot Camp is free in macOS but only allows you to run either Windows or macOS at one time. ![]() Using Parallels means you don’t have to restart your Mac when you want to use SolidWorks – you can just switch to macOS as you do when you want to use any other application.Įven better, Parallels can run Windows on Apple Silicon Macs so that you can run SolidWorks on an Apple Silicon Mac including on the latest version of macOS Sonoma.Īlthough you can only run Windows 11 for ARM on Apple Silicon Macs (Windows 11 for ARM is a specially adapted version of Windows for ARM chips like the M1/M2/M3), Microsoft has added Intel x86 emulation inside Windows 11 ARM to run software that requires Intel chips like SolidWorks. We’ve used a lot of virtual environments in our time and Parallels is by far the best virtual machine for Mac as it makes it easy enough for anyone to install Windows on a Mac. Virtual machines allow you to run macOS and Windows at the same time which is far more convenient as you can switch between your Mac and Windows in one click. Using a virtual machine is by far the best way to run SolidWorks on a Mac and is the method we’ve used in this tutorial.
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