SolidWorks 2016: Service Pack 0; SolidWorks will be supported on Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise when these versions are released, which will be at some point over the next few weeks. As with all versions of SolidWorks it will not be supported on the Home edition of Windows. Running SolidWorks on Windows 10 now. SOLIDWORKS 2016 (Education Version 2016-2017): Service Pack 0 will support Windows 10; As with all previous Operating systems, Windows Home Editions and Windows To Go versions are not supported. We have however, had a few Customers upgrade to, or purchase new Hardware that came with Windows 10 and many have reported some problems running. Microsoft released Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Here’s the SOLIDWORKS plan for supporting Windows 10. Windows 10 SOLIDWORKS Supported Editions. Windows 10 Pro (64 bit only). Windows 10 Enterprise (64 bit only) Windows 10 SOLIDWORKS Support Schedule (All Products). SOLIDWORKS 2015: SP5 (Released November 18, 2015). Solidworks installation on Windows 10 is quite an easy task if you follow these steps correctly. Lets began with some introduction of SolidWorks. Solidworks is a 3D modelling software developed by DASSAULT SYSTEMS. Nov 10, 2017 I installed my solidworks 2007 on a windows 10 machine. Since this machine did not have a lpt input for hardlock recognition I bought a pci-e card for this function. Unfortunately the software is not recognizing my hardlock. I've already tried putting it into compatibility mode for windows.
To better clarify, I purchased Solidworks 2013 for personal consulting/design work use a few years ago and it will not run natively on Windows 10. A new SW license/upgrade is out of the question as I don't do enough business to justify $4000 for a new version of Solidworks and even the $2000-$3000 during promotions is really pushing it. I also don't want to downgrade my computer as Windows 7 is quickly getting left behind and I feel like it's not a proper long term solution.
I tried for a minute to use Solidworks in Windows 10 set to Windows 7 compatibility mode and it worked perfectly and then...didn't. It suddenly, out of nowhere, started loading very slowly and then crashed when I tried to open a file. I reformatted my computer, reinstalled, and the same thing: worked for a few days, then got slow and crashed. Has anyone successfully run an older version of Solidworks on Windows 10 using compatibility mode? Is there some patch out there that makes this work and keep working? Are there some temp files I can periodically delete to make it work?
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Barring compatibility mode, how is virtual machine performance? Anyone running a Windows 7 virtual machine on Windows 10? If I upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, I can use Hyper-V (built-in Microsoft virtualization software) to run Windows 7, but I want to make sure the performance will be good before I go that route and would like to confirm it works properly at all. I'm actually running Solidworks 2013 on Windows 7 inside of a Parallels Virtual Machine on a Mac right now, so I figure Microsoft native virtual machines can't be worse than that. Though, honestly, the performance isn't really all that bad on the Mac VM, but Parallels seems to be trying to shift to a yearly subscription model and, again, I am trying to avoid a money suck even when there are gaps in my consulting use as at a certain point the cost of all of this software will negate my earnings to the point it's not even worth doing business at all.
If worse comes to worst, I'll just buy some used Windows 7 computer and forever and always make it my designated Solidworks computer, but I'd like to see if anyone can vouch for compatibility mode or virtual machines working first.