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Re: Trying to get the team on CAD

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
Create a new Boot Camp partition and install Windows natively on the Mac. CAD software needs every ounce of computing power it can get, and running it in virtual machines is robbing you of performance. You'll regret working in a VM anytime your assembly gets over a few dozen parts, which is barely enough to do a drivetrain.
Ditto.

If the goal is just to get kids learning CAD a bit, and have them able to make simpler parts and assemblies, this is a solution.

If you want to do serious work, you really don't want to run through a VM.
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