Note however that Boot Camp does not work on M1 chip Macs. Thanks to the Parallels virtual machine, you can now switch between macOS and SolidWorks running in Windows at anytime.Įven better, Parallels recently added support for running Windows on M1 Macs so that you can run SolidWorks on an Apple Silicon M1 chip Mac.Īlthough Parallels only supports running Windows 10 for ARM (a specially adapted version of Windows for ARM chips like the M1), Microsoft has added Intel x86 emulation inside Windows 10 ARM to run software that requires Intel chips like SolidWorks.Īlternatively, if you still have an Intel Mac, you can install SolidWorks using Boot Camp if you don’t need access to macOS while you’re using SolidWorks.
However the good news is there are ways to install the Windows version of SolidWorks on macOS including SolidWorks 2021 on M1 Macs. There’s plenty of amazing CAD software for Macs nowadays but unfortunately SolidWorks for Mac still does not exist.
