Also, you can change desktops and copy any files between your Parallels program (Windows Desktop) and OS X freely. Moreover, some of them are compatible with Directx 11, which can help to run graphically demanding apps and games. Despite the fact, that emulators usually use much of the resources of Mac, some of them, for example, Parallels, Virtualbox, or VMWare can help to run different programs on OS X with minimal losses in the performance of your machine. The most popular solution for running SOLIDWORKS on Mac/MacBook is virtualization software. At the present moment, there is no information about the release date and the possibility that SOLIDWORKS will be available for Mac. In our case, the reason is that SOLIDWORKS native Macintosh version simply doesn’t exist. Most developers are designing new, 64-bit versions of the apps but, despite it, there are still hundreds of apps that can only run on 32-bit Macs. Also, MacOS Catalina and Big Sur don’t support 32-bit apps. It may be an incompatibility with Mac or macOS version.

There are several reasons why some apps don’t run on Mac.

Over two million Engineers and Designers choose SOLIDWORKS, so if you are one of them, please read our article below if you wish to run it on your Mac. SOLIDWORKS has all modern functions and tools for generative design, work sharing, visualization, etc. Developed by Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS Corp SOLIDWORKS is a computer-aided design modeling tool (CAD), that helps to plan, design, and visualize all assets connected to construction, etc.

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