Solidworks crashes after 40 sec on IMac

[chrism74]

Hello Chris,
I'm planning to buy a brand new macbook pro 15 inch and 2,2 Ghz. And I need to run Solidworks on it.
Did Solidworks run via Bootcamp or Parallels on it or not? I didn't really get it, cause my English is not the best. I would be very happy if you could give me an answer on my question.

Or maybe there is someone else who can tell me if solidworks will work on the newest macbook pros?
Chester

Sorry for the late reply.

I have a brand new 15" MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz Core I7, 8GB RAM, SSD Hard Drive. Boot Camp with 64-Bit Windows 7 Ultimate.

Solidworks 64-Bit runs fine in Boot Camp if Parallels is not installed

If you install Parallels you can run SolidWorks 64-Bit from inside MacOS with no trouble.

If you have Parallels installed you will have to use the work-around discussed above to run SolidWorks 64-Bit when booting directly into Boot Camp.

I must say that I am quite happy with SolidWorks' performance on the new MBP. with my ~2009 MBP I would only use Parallels for very simple stuff. I can work with fairly large assemblies in Parallels now. The bottleneck in Parallels is the graphics. Rebuild time on big parts/assemblies is great but spinning large models is still painful. Directly booting into Boot Camp is stunning. The SSD was definitely worth it. Booting, opening applications, and assemblies is super-fast.

 

[chrism74]

Parallels support not much help

So Parallels is closing the support ticket I opened since there is a work-around. Here's what I sent as a response:

Thank you for looking into this matter.
I would prefer that this issue not go into resolved status since Parallels is still preventing me from using my computer in the way it is designed. What we have arrived at is an acceptable work-around.

I would prefer it if I had some assurance that the Parallels team was investigating the ways in which it's product can negatively impact other applications. As a technical professional I understand the challenges there are in debugging an interaction with 3rd party product. However, Parallels is an application who's only function is to provide access to other applications. So one could argue it is failing it's only mission. I only ask that the time I and others (notably in the Macrumors.com thread referenced previously) have invested in identifying and issue with your product not be in vain.

I will close by saying that I remain largely satisfied with the Parallels product. That it works as well as it does is amazing to me.

Regards​

 

[counterpart9]

fusion?

So i was doing some research before buying a new mbp and came to this thread. I was wondering if anyone had tired using VMWare Fusion versus Parallels and if there were similar issues?