Professionals should only consider buying workstation laptops after they’ve know for sure they’ll specifically need the specific features and stability of “workstation GPUs” since these can get VERY expensive. Laptops listed here can be separated into student laptops (by this i mean people getting started with solidworks or using the software for some engineering class) and professional laptops (those working for a company dealing with very large assemblies).
The guide can be a little too technical for some people so check those posts on the sidebar if you don’t know much about computer hardware. If this will be your main tool of work, I think you should give it a read later so you can learn why solidworks requires this or that. If you want all the details, you can jump to last section using the TOC. Just to avoid jargon and make it quick I’ve put up a table which summarizes the specifications that gives no trouble to assemblies of a given size. This has given me a pretty solid idea of how Solidoworks makes use of hardware resources. The cool part is that our lab gets updated every now and then so we have access to different types of GPUs and CPUs on computers and laptops. Size of my assembles can range from 1000 parts to 100 parts which is pretty representative of what a professional and a student would be working with. HOWEVER, I do use Solidworks from time to time if the project I’m assigned with requires it. I’m going to be honest: I don’t use Solidworks everyday like those people on reddit do.
You can find a lot of these hardware expert guys on reddit. The best thing to do here is to those who use the software NOW on modern desktops, workstations or laptops. They won’t even tell you what laptops will give you the best bang for your buck and much less if those are overkill or too weak for the models you work with. However, that’s all the information you’re going to get. They are all good choices for any CAD modeling software.
The official website which will list a bunch of certified workstation laptops. Where can you get reliable and accurate information about this? So that you don’t waste hundreds of dollars on a computer that will at some point start to lag and give you errors as the complexity of your model increases. What are the specific hardware specs that I need? ~700$), however there are some who are already in the field (say working for an automobile company) that may need to buy a workstation laptop with workstation GPU on board (this can cost anywhere from ~1500-4000$). Most users( are engineering students and) will deal with projects that will need nothing more than a consumer grade laptop with a dGPU (which costs aprox. Solidworks is a very versatile software, people will need different hardware specs depending on the kind of projects they work with. Finding the best laptop for solidworks can very subjective.
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