SolidWorks System Requirements
System hardware and operating system requirements for SolidWorks products.
For the PDM (Product Data Management) requirements click here»
Operating Systems Microsoft ® Windows ® Supported (9)
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SolidWorks 2008 |
SolidWorks 2009 |
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Vista (64 bit) (12) (11) (13) |
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| Vista (32 bit) (11) |
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| XP Professional (32 bit) (1) |
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| Professional 2000 (2) |
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(1) Support for Windows XP Professional is ending. For details see the Release
Notes or Technical Alerts.
(2) Supports SolidWorks 2010 SP1 or higher (based on Windows 7 availability).
(3) Windows Vista Ultimate, Business and Enterprise editions only (SP0 or
higher).
(4) Windows Vista 64-bit is supported for SolidWorks 2008 SP3.1 or higher.
The Education Edition, Student Edition, and Student Design Kit are supported
after the 2008-2009 academic school year.
(5) Supported for Windows XP Professional SP2 or higher.
(6) eDrawings and eDrawings Professional is supported on all operating systems
listed above and Mac OS X 10.4.x or higher.
(7) SolidWorks is not supported on Apple Macintosh®-based machines.
(8) Novell networks and non-Windows based network storage devices are not
tested or recommended.
(9) The Windows operating system requirements follow the Microsoft Windows
life-cycle policy http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect
(10) Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions only.
(11) Intel® Pentium® 3, AMD Athon™ and Athon XP CPU’s are not supported.
CPU must support SSE2.

