Elting Mechanical Enterprises

At the recent SolidWorks world conference, the presenters showed SolidWorks running inside the Mac OS. The main point of this charade was really about computing "in the cloud". In really, the Mac was running a dual OS system.

I recently sent an email to Steve Jobs asking them to seriously look at opening discussions with the SolidWorks folks about porting to the Mac OS. The implications would be a watershed moment for the CAD community. Not that there are no other CAD systems that can run on Mac OS, its just that those few are Mickey Mouse.

Having a powerhouse like SolidWorks, running on a Mac OS would force the major players (Autodesk, PTC, Siemens) to re-think the Windows only platform for their CAD products. This could also cause Windows to start thinking about the crap they dish out and maybe, just maybe, they'll wake up and start getting back to solid, tested, and stable OS.