Macbookpro 15- mechanical engineering

[chanty2]

Im plannin on getting a macbook pro 15 (base model). I am a mechanical engineering student. I will be doing my graduate studies in the same stream. I wanted to know if softwares like ANSYS , ABAQUS , solidworks work well in this base model. I will be using windows. not sure if its through bootcamp or parallels. Help me out guys.

 

[Toltepeceno]

Im plannin on getting a macbook pro 15 (base model). I am a mechanical engineering student. I will be doing my graduate studies in the same stream. I wanted to know if softwares like ANSYS , ABAQUS , solidworks work well in this base model. I will be using windows. not sure if its through bootcamp or parallels. Help me out guys.

Solidworks will not run properly because they do not have supported graphics cards on macs. We went through this with our son as he has to have it for school.

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.
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.

http://www.cadtek.com/running-solidworks-on-a-mac

https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/SystemRequirements.html

I know this is not what you are looking for, but we wound up getting him this one for under 700.00 and it runs it perfectly with a NVIDIA GeForce 840M (2 GB DDR3 dedicated) card. The envy is surprisingly very solid built with very good sound. The one he has is far faster than my yosemite spinning beach ball.

http://store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stor...roductId=541663&storeId=10151#!&TabName=specs

 

[dyt1983]

edit: To remove personally identifying information not relevant to the thread.

 

[Toltepeceno]

Really? I guess you didn't actually read my quote, it covered running windows on a mac. I put the part for edrawings in there for general knowledge.

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 drive.

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.

It covers that you cannot run it properly running windows on osx as there are no supported video cards on the macbook pro's and even if you did have a supported one you would have to run bootcamp as with parallels it still would not recognize it. That's irrelevant though as they do not supported cards.

He said he would be running Windows.

Regardless, the GPU in any model isn't listed as recommended for Solidworks, although it seems to run OK as long as one doesn't have too many surfaces or polygons. So usually for learning with non-production models, the speed is acceptable... but complex models with real deadlines should be used with a desktop system.

 

[dyt1983]

edit: To remove personally identifying information not relevant to the thread.

 

[Toltepeceno]

I read your first sentence which said "solidworks will not run on osx", and was referring to that, not the rest of your quote. The OP doesn't care that it doesn't run on OSX, because he said he is running it on Windows. I think that makes your first statement seem more like you're not reading the OP's OP.

I guess reading is not your strong suit as the part I quoted was to *EXACTLY* cover the part about running solidworks on a mac through windows. You just have to read and understand it. How do you know what the op cares about? That's awful narcissistic. I was pointing out that edrawing would along with the rest of the post.

You posted a reference about running it under Parallels, but then say it doesn't work. I actually do run it under Parallels... I guess to you "work" is a subjective term. Overall, it does work, but some functions are degraded. That's kind of normal with a lot of software, depending on what hardware you have, some functions are disabled, but overall, it works. If you don't need to use the functions that don't work without a supported GPU, then it is still useful.

Where did I say it would not run under parallels? Back up your false statement. Try reading and understanding, jeesh. If running under parallels it will not recognize a supported graphics card even if you had one. Under boot camp it will. THAT's the point. I clearly posted the quote of the things that will not run properly under parallels, I did not say it would not run. That is a false statement.

Finally, you say you "have to run bootcamp" but it's pretty well known that Windows 8.1 can be installed on a MacBook without Boot Camp.

LoL, the op said:

Not sure if its through bootcamp or parallels.

which means it is between bootcamp and parallels. You are droning on about how I put a remark in my answer about running solidworks on osx, that he did not ask, and now you are ranting about a method of installing windows on osx that he did not mention? He SPECIFICALLY mentioned boot camp and parallels and bootcamp is the ONLY ONE out of the two that will recognize the supportrd graphics card if you even have one. The hypocrisy points toward you just wanting to be argumentative, please pay attention to the conversation.

It's amazing how someone can post things like this on a thread without actually reading what they are replying to.

Here, let my apply your above post to this instance:

I read your *comment* which said "Windows 8.1 can be installed on a MacBook without Boot Camp", and was referring to that. The OP doesn't care that can be installed without using bootcamp, because he said he is running it on boot camp or parallels. I think that makes your statement seem more like you're not reading the OP's OP.

See the hypocrisy?

 

[chanty2]

And what about ansys and abaqus. they dont require gpu right? they need high memory. so will the macbook pro be sufficient ? And is bootcamp a preferred choice to run ansys or abaqus.

 

[Toltepeceno]

I have no experience with the others, just solidworks. Sorry. Maybe someone with EXPERIENCE and that actually reads the thread will come along and help.

 

[chanty2]

And what about ansys and abaqus. they dont require gpu right? they need high memory. so will the macbook pro be sufficient ? And is bootcamp a preferred choice to run ansys or abaqus.