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Maybe this: https://github.com/cryinkfly/SOLIDWORKS-for-Linux
Lots of people saying it's easy enough to run on wine without helper scripts.
Genuinely surprised to see this exists, SOLIDWORKS seems to always be in the same "hard no" category as Adobe software in every one of these kinds of threads I've seen over the years. This is literally the first time I've ever seen a response with a potential solution.
I wonder how well it works (Just out of curiosity, I don't do CAD myself)
I decided to move to FreeCAD from Autodesk Inventor as I figured it would be easier and more beneficial to make the switch earlier in my engineering career, and I really like the experience so far - lots of good documentation and tutorials.