This is the base key and from where all changes will be done.įirst go to Current and write down the values of the following keys that will be needed later: Open REGEDIT -> Go to HKCU -> Software -> Solidworks -> Solidworks 2021 -> Performance -> Graphics -> Hardware. To do it, I found many tutorials but none explaining how to do it with this version, so here goes the trick: Also, make sure that for the install at least the VM is isolated and doesn's sync the directories with your Mac, ten you can enable it back.īy some strange reason, the MSSQL DB that needs SW Electrical and Toolbox fails to install no matter what I try, so in the end I just skipped that part and install run smooth until the end.Īfter installing the license and activating the copy, everything was fine except that the graphics look quite bad as RealView is not enabled because the graphics card is not supported. Got a crash and failed install the first time I tried. I created a Win11 Pro parallels VM with 32GB RAM to get started.

Just wanted to share my experience running SW on my M1 Max 64GB.