If you own an older Intel-based Mac, is the most straightforward solution. It allows you to partition your hard drive and install Windows natively.
While native desktop support varies, Siemens offers robust cloud-streaming options for NX, allowing heavy PLM engineering on macOS thin clients.
Founded by the creators of SolidWorks, Onshape is a fully browser-based, enterprise-grade parametric CAD platform. Because it computes data in the cloud, it runs perfectly on any Mac via Safari or Chrome without draining local hardware resources.
If you want to avoid Windows entirely, consider these CAD tools that run natively on macOS:
Even without native support, you have three reliable methods to use CATIA on macOS.
Does not work on M1, M2, or M3 Macs; requires a system reboot to switch between macOS and Windows. Performance Tuning for CATIA on Apple Silicon
Porting a massive, multi-million-line codebase to Apple's native Metal graphics API represents a financial and logistical hurdle that Dassault Systèmes has not yet justified, given Windows' dominance in enterprise engineering.