With the new Macs that came out last year and their good looking performance I thought that this would be a good time to try out parallels running SolidWorks. Is there any plan to have SW run like Fusion 360 without parallels or run at all with the new ARM architecture? I get that there is always GPU issues so i was wondering if there would be a patch that would fix some of the common issues we’ve seen in the past.
Thanks!
EO
Hi Efrain,
I’m afraid our experience here at Spanner is that Parallels is getting less and less stable with each new version of Parallels and SolidWorks. Most of my colleagues are still on their 2013 circa Macbooks - and could not get SW2020 to run correctly on the latest version of Parallels - due to graphic issues. This doesn’t surprise me and I raise a red flag over a year ago that we need to start moving over to PC. It doesn’t surprise me because Dassault has made some significant graphic changes in the last two releases and I don’t think legacy graphics is going to be handled like the core program (just like the OS is not indefinitely supported). Over the last 6 years we have lost countless hours supporting two OS systems (MacOS and virtual OS- Parallels) and maintaining two just compounds the problem. My advice to you is to get off Mac or go the 3Dx route.
Sorry I don’t have better news for you.
Don't think it'll help much with Solidworks or other CAD, SIM.
It just more "throttling" for power and heat.
Also how long can the "high performance" core run before it need to slow down?
Right. At this point its going to come down to how well can SolidWorks be optimized for the new chips.. and based on the history of updates in SW I’d say its going to be a while before it’s optimized for either intel or M1 chips... I mean people are rendering 4K video without the fans turning on w/ the M1 chips so the possibility is there to run without throttling its a matter of having SW optimized to use a non discrete GPU.
Video is highly parallel process. The GPU is optimized to do that.
Someone need to recode a parallel CAD kernel.
Maybe borrow a game engine.
I don't know why people want to run a high demand software like SW in an emulator.
Every instruction SW do will need to translate from x86 to ARM and back.
And people think it'll be faster.
I don’t think anyone wants to run it in an emulator but we are forced to because of the lack of support. We’re seeing now that Apple is pulling ahead in the products in terms of performance and aesthetic. Performance of a M1 through an emulator is now faster than most of the intel laptops out at the moment and will continue to be the case for a while. Windows has been lagging behind apple for some time now copying their products I don’t see why software companies don’t make an effort to make the move.
Because some software is stuck at single core.
They are struggling to program for one platform, they can't work on another.
Well some try to move everything to browser so its "platform free".
Works great until their server down.
Use the browser-based version.