somebody tried it, but it won't run. try asking these guys.

Thank you good news and solidworks my favorite software with cinema 4d

Karim alharbi

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I haven't tried Solid Works specifically, but have successfully run other native Windows programs in a virtual machine such as VirtualBox. In some cases, the Windows application runs significantly slower in a virtual machine, but this may be addressable through hardware upgrades. One also has the option of setting the machine up as dual boot, where the machine is booted in Windows or your choice of Linux distros. This tends to give better performance.

Depending on what you are using Solid Works for, you may want to have a look at a package called CAELinux, which is a special distro built on top of Ubuntu 8.04 and includes a variety of scientific/engineering applications already loaded. They include a package called Solome-Meca which offers a solid modeller intended as a front end to a couple of choices of finite element analysis programs- quite sophisticated, considering the price (exactly $0.00). Perhaps not as versatile or user-friendly as Sold Works, but quite effective. The package also contains such applications as ScilLab (a Matlab look-alike), Octave (another math analysis package), and QCAD (a very bare-bones 2D CAD program).

I have been running the distro from a lived DVD to test it, so the performance is somewhat slower than were I to actually install the package directly on the machine- one of the things I like about Ubuntu is that it is easy to "try before you buy" (at a significant performance penalty, however).

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