SolidWorks

What works

• MSI installer (after 'winetricks vcrun2005 vcrun2008' was applied)
• Open/Save dialog (after workaround for bug #9396 was applied)
• Using a license from the license server
• Help functionality (after 'winetricks ie6' was applied)
• Background image when SolidWorks just started (after 'winetricks gdiplus' was applied)
• Sketching, Modeling, Assembling all seem to work (I did not try every Feature or Sketch tool yet)

What does not

• Dual screen usage (when putting SolidWorks on secondary screen) results in some strange effects, like
  • Menus shown in primary screen (fixed by showing SolidWorks on primary screen maximized first, before dragging to secondary screen and maximizing it)
  • Opening tutorial moves SolidWorks back to primary screen (until it is closed)
• Some images still have black/weird background (its a pity but really not a problem)

Workarounds

What was not tested

Lots of things, as I am new to SolidWorks and do not know what things are working correctly or not.
No add-ins were tested as well

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Tested SolidWorks version was 2010 SP4 using an educational license

Some changes introduced in user SID mapping in 1.3.15 prevents SolidWorks to launch if it was installed before 1.3.15

A simple hack solved the problem : 

 env WINEPREFIX=your_solidworks_prefix sed -i "s/S-1-5-4/S-1-5-21-0-0-0-1000/g"  $WINEPREFIX/system.reg  

 by NSLW on (September 25th 2012)

Pre-installation steps

1. Use recent version of Wine(tested with wine-1.7.4)

2. Download winetricks by following command

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

3. Install required components by following command

sh winetricks -q dotnet30 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 mfc40

4. Install additional components by following command

sh winetricks -q wsh57 msxml6 riched20

It will take some time because winetricks will download all above components

Installing

1. Go to SOLIDWORKSINTALLATIONMEDIA/swwi/data/
2. Run setup.exe
3. Configure your installation as you like and let installer copy all the files
4. At the end you'll be informed that installation has failed. You will lose your installed files if you acknowledge this, so start your favourite terminal (e.g. Konsole, gnome-terminal, xterm) and type

killall msiexec

The window will disappear and the installation is complete.

Known problems

1. No possibility to install service pack­

There are several steps, which aren't required to successfully start SolidWorks, but help in some way:

1. sh winetricks riched20 - no crash in vba editor