Solidworks on VPC7....is it possible?

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  1. aussiemac86, Mar 25, 2005

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    Hi,

    I am a second year mechanical engineering student, at Uni we use Solidworks. I know it would be a stretch but has anyone tried to use solidworks via VPC7?

    I have a dual 2.5Ghz G5 w/ 1.5GBram and radeon 9600 pro (128mb VRAM).

    What are peoples thoughts on how solid works would run in Virtual PC 7 on my set-up?

    Cheers
     
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  2. Pittsax, Mar 26, 2005

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    I can't tell you at the moment, but my girlfriend is a technician for SolidWorks...I'll ask her about it. I wouldn't hold my breath though...
     
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  3. micvog, Mar 26, 2005

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    Solidworks won't work in VPC7 on any Macintosh. Period. Solidworks needs a hardware-accelerated graphics card; VPC doesn't emulate one.
     
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  4. Pittsax, Mar 26, 2005

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    Not to mention that VPC7 only supports 512MB RAM, which is the absolute minimum for Solidworks. In the words of my girlfriend, "Solidworks would die."
     
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  5. aussiemac86, Mar 28, 2005

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    OK

    cheers for the responses
     
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