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I am about to go to college for engineering and they require a Windows laptop because of the software we will be using (mostly solidworks I'm pretty sure) doesn't work on other operating systems. I primarily use windows day-to-day for gaming and such anyways so it's not a problem for me but I'm wondering if anyone had experience using solidworks or any other industry-class CAD software like Inventor on linux

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[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I personally use FreeCad. But for school you are probably SOL.

If you absolutely need non wine compatible software on your machine you’ll need to:

  1. Dualboot if you care for power

  2. Use a VM if you don’t care for the additional overhead

  3. try wine and see what happens

See if your school has labs for this, might be easier and the computer might be faster than your laptop.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you thing 3dstudio would work in a VM?

[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=318

According to winedb no. Or at least garbage. That being said it was tested with an old version of wine, so who knows. Maybe it’ll work now.

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