Windows 64 bit/Solidworks X64

[hisrik]

When I install Solidworks on my 64 bit windows OS, is it advantageous in any way to install Solidworks X64 or just regular Solidworks?

Mechanical Engineer

 

[PDMAdmin]

According to the SWx website, the primary advantage of x64 is increased memory allocation.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/programs/SolidWorksDellx64Page/SolidWorksDellx64Page.html

 

[RawheadRex]

hisrik,

Following up PDMAdmin's comments to be completely fair there is SOME performance increase w/ x64 SolidWorks. The number that I was told is figure on 5%-10% but not much more than that. x64 is going to help out the people who work w/ larger files primarily.

Regards,


Chris Gervais
Application Engineer
CSWP, CSWST