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[cadthing]

Hi everyone

I will be starting a coarse shortly and I will be placing my order for solidworks student, however it seems as thought solidworks 2009 does not support XP 64 is there any progress on this situation??

[Annika Nauheimer]

That's not really true... xp64 bit is supported with some exeptions:
The SolidWorks® Student Edition 2008-2009 version is compatible with Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional 32 & 64 bit and/or
Microsoft® Vista Business or Ultimate version 32-bit only. All 'Home' Series are not supported!
Please refer to the following website for further information about the system requirements:
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/education/stu...are-3d-mcad.htm

Cheers
Annika

(Note: I am actually not sure but I think you need to tell your reseller you want to use it for 64bit, then he is going
to sent you a different DVD...)

[cadthing]

Hi everyone

I will be starting a coarse shortly and I will be placing my order for solidworks student, however it seems as thought solidworks 2009 does not support XP 64 is there any progress on this situation??

thanks for the reply.

I will try to install it when the software arrives.

Would I be able take advantage of the extra Ram in XP 64 as XP 32 is limited to 4GB????

[Annika Nauheimer]

64-bit theoretically, 16Tb (T = Tera = 10E12). A 32-bit machine is limited to 4Gb (G = Giga = 10E9).
The number of 'bits' basically refers to the number of memory addresses available on a machine.

For further information, see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294418/EN-US/

[cadthing]

64-bit theoretically, 16Tb (T = Tera = 10E12). A 32-bit machine is limited to 4Gb (G = Giga = 10E9).
The number of 'bits' basically refers to the number of memory addresses available on a machine.

For further information, see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294418/EN-US/

I was aware of the info, but does anyone know wether solidworks student will only be able to use more than 4GB ??

On a side note does scanto3D come with the student version as I would like to get in to the scanning side as well????

[Annika Nauheimer]

The SolidWorks Add-in Scan to 3D was not part of the 2007-2008 Education package,
so I am pretty sure it's also not available in the new Education Version.

[cadthing]

The SolidWorks Add-in Scan to 3D was not part of the 2007-2008 Education package,
so I am pretty sure it's also not available in the new Education Version.

I will be attending my coarse in the next few weeks and I think they have installed 2009 office premium with the Scanto3d do you know wether Scanto3d is cpu intensive or GPU as the file i will be dealing with will be over 100,000000 points????

[gloryforixseal]

on my mbp solidworks runs pretty well via bootcamp...crashes rarely... i would not use parallels, the performance is annoying
big models are impossible to handle...i tried, but switched to bootcamp after some days.

[n0f8r]

Hi everyone

I will be starting a coarse shortly and I will be placing my order for solidworks student, however it seems as thought solidworks 2009 does not support XP 64 is there any progress on this situation??

It definately does support XP 64 - I suspect that one of the main UK student distributors for Solidworks is causing this confusion, see here :
https://www.studica.com/products/product_de...Works-2009-2010
and on that page :

System Requirements

* DOES NOT SUPPORT 64BIT OS ^{not true - it does !!}
* XP Professional(32-bit), Vista (32-bit)

But I bought it from them anyway as an XP 64 user and I can confirm there are two DVDs in the case, one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit.