Not that I am enjoying it much, but for a few years I’ve been using a MacBook for my SolidWorks projects.
I never been a fan of Bootcamp since rebooting the computer in Windows really interrupts my work. I’m also using FileVault and BitLocker encryption and this is preventing me from transferring between the OS partitions… not so professional in 2015 to use a USB drive to move files around your own computer, right?
For these reasons and some others I’m running SolidWorks on a Windows 7 Virtual Machine: Parallels

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With Parallels there is a perfect integration and communication between the two OS (even with encryption enabled), there’s no need to stop any of the activity you are doing to switch to Windows and of course Retina display is well supported.
Right after the installation SolidWorks will run smoothly enough, but there are a few tricks that will give you a better experience.

Parallels running with 4096 MB memory; Parallels video memory 1 GB; Situation 3: my Workstation XW6600. Windows XP Pro, 64 bit, SP2; 2x Intel Xeon Quadcore 2.5 GHz, E5420; 16 GB Ram; NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600, 768 MB; Results: Punchholder benchmark SolidWorks 2012 SP5.0, CRTL+Q for rebuild of model, results from feature statistics info. (as a hex value). In my case, I did this to four adapters that were combinations of Parallels and ATI/NVIDIA. After this change Solidworks used the hardware OpenGL and is more than fast enough for anything I do. The performance under Parallels is just as good as the performance under Windows natively. Re: SolidWorks 2007 (64bit edition) up and running on Mac OSX phillman5 Jun 30, 2008 5:58 AM ( in response to jomichael.porter ) I am trying to do the exact same too on a MacBook Pro, but only the 32 bit addition of solidworks. However I'm a bit confused as to why I have wired memory at 10gb and literally 2 gb free while all I'm running is windows 8 as a VM on my mac and my apple mail. I'm scared to open photoshop in case it will all go haywire (pardon the pun). Solidworks on the other hand is a major memory and processor hog if you do complicated things. I'm not a particular fan of Windows which has so many weak spots it's not even funny. But if that's what you will be running anyway, then the OS question is really not the issue.

1) Parallels Settings

Make sure your VM is configured like this:

(Parallels -> Virtual Machine -> Configure -> Options -> Optimization )

(Parallels -> Virtual Machine -> Configure -> Hardware -> Video )

2) Regedit Tweaks

Disclaimer…
A word or warning though, as you all know SolidWorks still states very clearly on its system requirements page that:

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Apple Macintosh®-based machines running Windows using Boot Camp are not supported.

Of course we should assume that Virtual Machine are even less supported, therefore SolidWorks misbehaviours may happen.
I should also say that tinkering around with Windows regedit it’s not a safe practice if you don’t know what you are doing, but since we are talking of a Virtual Machine here, switch on those Parallels SnapShots and play how much you want!

Open the Windows Registry Editor

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Reach for the folder

If you can’t find it means you never started SolidWorks, you must run it at least once to have the Windows Registry populated. Also, if your version is not the 2014, change the path according to your version.

Double-click on the “Renderer” key, copy the Value string and click OK

Reach for the folder

Right Click on “Other” folder and select “New Key”. Paste the name you copied two steps ago.

Select the newly created folder, and after a right click in the white right panel choose New -> DWORD (32bit)

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Name the Key“Workarounds” and after double clicking on it enter a hex value “40008” (without “”) (this is the setting for the nVidia card, ATI is typically 0 but it varies)

In the folder

look for all the sub-folders containing the name “parallels” (should be 4)
For the “Parallels and NVIDIA” folders, modify the Workarounds value in “4000480”, for the “Parallels and ATI” modify in “10”

3) Enjoy OpenGL and RealView

If you followed these few step correctly you should now be able to enjoy OpenGL and RealView Graphics in SolidWorks

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Typically I have to reset this reg key after installing a service pack so you may want to right click on your key and export it for a simple double click after a patch.