Ok after many weeks of trials and errors i FINALLY got my copy of Solidworks
2005 to work on x64,i saw many people asking if SW 2005 works under x64,i was
one of those people who said no,but now ill explain how to make it work (this
goes for the original discs of SW 2005,if you are trying to make it work with
something illegal,dont come here to complain that it ain't working) :
SW 2005 support x64 from SP 3.1 and beyond.
- First Take out the plug.
- Second you need to download HASP Device Driver which can be downloaded
from here: http://www.aladdin.co.il/support/hasp/hasp4/enduser.asp
The file is called H4_hinstall.zip
- Unzip the content of that zip,then go to Start-> Run,drag hinstall.exe
into the Run box and add SPACE -i at the end.
- Now install SW 2005 SP0 from your discs. (you will still get an error on
its last disc,ignore it).
- When its done installing,update your copy of SW 2005 with SP 5.0 (or
eariler versions,but keep in mind that you must have at least SP 3.1)
- After its done updating your SP 5.0,go to add/remove programs in your
Control Panel and do a repair for SW 2005.
- Insert your plug back in,now Solidworks 2005 should work fine.
* I even installed SW 2006 and both of them are working together like a
charm (SW 2006 installs fine,no need of any tweaking).
* This little tweak came from the Solidworks support,its not my doing.