lawsy wrote:Massive pain in the bum but a second partition with W7 for Solidworks?
Do you mean a W7 partition for a Windows 8 computer or a Mac?
Another complication is that Solidworks says Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate (or Vista Ultimate, Vista Business, or XP Pro) is officially supported. I've seen users on the internet say that Windows 7 Home Premium is working with Solidworks for them, but that combo is not supported by Solidworks.
jooshs wrote:Are you still a student in engineering? I would say, if you have the means, that it is more than worth it to have a drive devoted to windows on your mac if you plan on using that most of the time. I just ran into so many times where having windows was useful with some of the programs used. Also, it was a lot more convenient to keep most of my engineering programs on the same drive since it was easier to hop around from one to another. At times, I would have Solidworks, Matlab, Arduino, 3ds max, all of the printing programs open and more since I needed to quickly see how changing a model would change the dynamics of a part, see how I would change the controls, see how long it would take to print, and so on... Just my 2 cents, but the extra drive was more than worth it. I replaced my optical drive with a small 80 GB SSD and installed BootCamp with a cheap version of windows 7 and it was the best move I made. Hope this helps.
My engineering days are long past me as I'm retired, but my high school age boys are interested in 3D printing and designing items with Solidworks. If I end up having to buy a separate copy of Windows 7, I'll definitely be looking to put it on a partition on a Mac. Did you end up with Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Pro?
I'm confused - you got rid of your optical drive? How did you deal with cd's or dvd's?
Tomek wrote:Why did the install fail..?
Unless they have a spec *requirement*, then the install should not fail. It might merely be slow...
The spec requirement is for XP Pro, Vista Ultimate or Business, or Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate. I have some HP abortion called Windows XP Media Center. I think it is based on XP Pro, but I'm not completely certain.
Another spec requirement is a "tested OpenGL workstation graphics card and driver combination". I KNOW I don't have that as all this laptop has is a lowly ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 Series card. The thing is that I installed a SDK version of Solidworks 2011 earlier this year and it worked. Not screaming fast or anything, but it worked.
Why did the install fail? I'm not sure as there were multiple errors during the install.
At about 14% complete, I got an error saying: The executable file "E:\PreReqs\dotnetfx3.5.exe'" /q /norestart did not install successfully. This was during the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 installation.
At 15% complete, I got an error saying: Internal Error: The Windows Installer for this product component did not run as expected: CA_BlockVSTAonFramework.3643236F_FC70_11D3_A536_0090278A1BB8. This was during the Visual Studio Tools installation, whatever that is.
At 22% complete, I got an error saying: Error 1304. Error writing to file DwgDocumentMgrNET.dll. Verify that you have access to that directory.
Still at 22% complete, I got another error saying: Internal Error. The Windows Installer for this product component did not run as expected: InstallExecute
I'm almost wishing I had gone with Alibris or Cubify Invent at this point...
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