Some of you may remember that before SolidWorks hit the scene, you usually needed an expensive UNIX workstation to run 3D design tools. That meant leveraging consumer-grade hardware-something that had not seen mainstream success at that time.

DraftSight is also available for OS X as a beta version.īut what about SolidWorks 3D CAD? When SolidWorks was developed in the early 1990s, the founding team’s mission was to put the power of 3D CAD on every engineer’s desktop. This includes eDrawings Viewer for OS X, as well as eDrawings and eDrawings Professional for iOS. We do develop several applications that are available for OS X and iOS. All things considered, it makes perfect sense that we’re often asked if SolidWorks software runs on the Apple OS X operating system found on Macbooks and Mac Pros. Apple is, without question, one of the most well-known brands in the world. You’ve seen their ads, you’ve browsed their stores, and chances are you probably already own one of their products.