r/SolidWorks • u/Allergic2Humans • 5d ago

Hardware Clone solidworks for Linux/Mac?

Now that people are reverse engineering using AI and rebuilding products for different platforms, are there thoughts on doing this for solidworks? Not to be fully feature compliant because yes solidworks needs a lot of hardware optimization from windows but atleast something that works for intermediate levels?

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u/WeirdEngineerDude 5d ago

You’d have to reverse engineer all the crashes and then the crash reporter crashing. That’s no easy task.

Check out and support FreeCAD. Replace Solidworks the old fashioned way.

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u/Tetris_Prime 5d ago

I was thinking EXACTLY this 😂 it would require god-tier Ai to reconstruct all of that spaghetti code.

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u/Dr_Lipshitz_ 4d ago

You mean 20 years of just adding add ons to the add ons isnt a good strategy?

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u/Tetris_Prime 4d ago

It sure works for some companies 😂