Hello,

Just a beginner with Solidworks for Makers, installed it and started working just fine, next, connecting to 3dexperience from within Solidworks stopped working, program worked just fine tho. One day decided to uninstall it, maybe something was wrong with initial installation. Solidworks connected gave me an installation error with messages. Following directions of one of the users, downloaded the install files, initiated the process, at the end gave an error that I can't remember, so I downloaded the installer again but the login page was giving me the "you're not allow to access this page" response, over and over again. Today I logged in and this time went in, reason for me writing this message.

At the end of the day, I would like a steady connection without login issues, Solidworks is famous for that according to multiple sources inline and these forums are full of this issue also. I actually love the way Solidworks feel when working with it, better to me than Fusion 360 I sporadically use, wanted to really learn it and get into CAD design as a retirement hobby. At the present time I don't think is going to work, don't like a headache connecting, nor dealing with the registry in Windows to try to make it work, instead of a hobby ithas become a frustrating event.

I have no doubt that it works for thousands of users and it is an Industry standard in CAD design, for me is an issue, I'm about to throw the towel with SW. Not sure my comment will be welcome here but I'm to the point of not dealing with SW.

A little info on my system:

MacStudio M1 Max, Sequoia 15.5

32GIG Ram

Paralells 20.3.1

Wndows 11 Pro

All checked out as a requirement to run SW, perhaps I'm doing something strange here but double checked many times and I don't think I am.

If anyone can tell me what the issue with my setup might be, please advise, want to give SolidWorks another shot because I like the way it works.

My apologies if any of these comments is offensive.

Have a good day!