Anyone know anything about system requirements or in IT?

[Dannii]

Doing an assignment in CAD, been asked why we have hardware and software requirements for programmes and how the system requirements can help a company in speeding up production and analysis?


Anyone? Helpppp! :panic:

[MuZiZZle]

I've supported CAD environments for years.

1, look on the product box for the miniumum spec
2, match it or exceed it

Basically the RAM & CPU, the moar you have / bigger it is, the faster it will go, it's that simple.

same with the graphics card, the bigger the better.

[Randyransford91]

I've supported CAD environments for years.

1, look on the product box for the miniumum spec
2, match it or exceed it

Basically the RAM & CPU, the moar you have / bigger it is, the faster it will go, it's that simple.

same with the graphics card, the bigger the better.

+1 Simplessss

EDIT: Just to add: the reason minimum requirements are needed as obviously a program needs so much 'resources' to run. Example: Word or PowerPoint may use like 30% of your RAM resources and say 25% Processor resource plus say 10% Graphics Processor use. Whereas CAD will use 85% CPU, 70% RAM, 87% GPU. But obviously a computer will be running back ground applications other than CAD so they also will be using the resources. So then as above if you exceed the specs needed to run CAD it will run seamlessly, plus with a fancy graphics card you could have a better resolution output which gives out clearer images on the screen or be able to have a dual screen setup. This gives you a better view as you don't have to scroll about as much as. Obviously speeding production up...

Hope this helps! :y:

[Mr_P]

I had the exact same question for one of my CAD assignments many moons ago. If I remember this afternoon I shall try and dig it out for you.

[Brettles1986]

As MuZiZZle has said, the better specification the computer you are running the faster the computer will be therefore allowing more efficient use of users time.

Software such as AutoCAD is very much resource intensive.

[MuZiZZle]

For Autodesk, read this

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=13963240

Basically Autocad is designed to run on Nvidia graphics cards, super fast

[jasonmayall]

As above, The bigger the numbers, the better.
My laptop - Half decent but the hard drive lets it down, unless you go for a SSD, generally the slowest thing is the HDD.
http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/JasonMayall1/System.png

[Dannii]

I'm using SolidWorks... :(

[MuZiZZle]

As above, The bigger the numbers, the better.
My laptop - Half decent but the hard drive lets it down, unless you go for a SSD, generally the slowest thing is the HDD.
http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/JasonMayall1/System.png

not if you're rendering in Inventor, that'll be the CPU/GPU

CAD is normally wireframe, solid state will help but not THAT much in that environment

[MuZiZZle]

I'm using SolidWorks... :(

http://www.solidworks.co.uk/sw/support/SystemRequirements.html

[o_O]

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

Heres some benchmarks for GPU if you need statistics and comparisons.