SolidWorks Corp. Uses Mac To Demo New SolidWorks Sustainability Xpress
Two weeks ago, I heard SolidWorks Corp. CEO Jeff Ray talk about Mac computers. He said he uses nothing but Macs in his house, his Wife loves them. Mr. Ray said there are about "40 - 50 Macs at SolidWorks HQ running SolidWorks". He thought they used Bootcamp to run SolidWorks. He said SolidWorks couldn't support the use of Macs and SolidWorks because "we (SolidWorks) get no help from Apple".
Here is SolidWorks' Rick Chin showing Sustainability Xpress. Is this a Mac? I don't have a Mac, so I'm asking.
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That's Rick's own personal Mac. You can't see it, but his company-issued Thinkpad is off to the left. And yes, he's using Bootcamp or Parallels, I can't remember which. I gave him a hard time about running an unsupported installation. ;)
Looks like he was running VMWare Fusion or Parallels to run Vista. You can see the OSX menu bar in the lifecycle assessment logo and he showed OSX Expose (the 4 window view he pops up to see what is running). So Yes that is a Mac. There are a lot of us doing it.
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I heard they can run solidworks in mac thru emulator, anybody have try it?
Posted by: zack | July 03, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Good point Charles. Macs are very expensive. We don't have any either.
Devon
Posted by: Devon T. Sowell | June 29, 2009 at 12:26 PM
I don't make enough money to run all Apples. My wife has one because she is a graphics designer. I'm afraid I'm too poor to buy apple products.
Posted by: CharlesCulp | June 29, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Interesting, thanks Matt.
Devon
Posted by: Devon T. Sowell | June 26, 2009 at 10:28 AM
That's Rick's own personal Mac. You can't see it, but his company-issued Thinkpad is off to the left. And yes, he's using Bootcamp or Parallels, I can't remember which. I gave him a hard time about running an unsupported installation. ;)
Posted by: Matthew West | June 26, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Thanks Lou.
Devon
Posted by: Devon T. Sowell | June 26, 2009 at 09:02 AM
Looks like he was running VMWare Fusion or Parallels to run Vista. You can see the OSX menu bar in the lifecycle assessment logo and he showed OSX Expose (the 4 window view he pops up to see what is running). So Yes that is a Mac. There are a lot of us doing it.
Posted by: Lou Gallo | June 26, 2009 at 09:00 AM