What spec computer are YOU using with Solidworks?

Which FX chip do you have and have you benched it with the Ship in the
Bottle?

Thanks,

Dan

 

I got a pretty good machine from CAD2, as reviewed in MCAD magazine, except
I have an ATI Fire GL5100 video card.
http://www.cadserver.co.uk/common/viewer/archive/2004/Oct/26/news10.phtm

Shame the Solidworks programmers are getting so lazy as it doesn't seem to
matter how powerul your machine is, the software just gets slower and
slower.....fundamentals such as the sketcher and rolling back the history
tree just grind to a halt after a few hours of modelling.

 

Hello Lee-

"fundamentals such as the sketcher and rolling back the history
tree just grind to a halt after a few hours of modeling."

I restart my computer every 1 hour or so. Also, I have shortcuts to my Temp
folders and I delete the files inside every 2 hours or so. At lunch, I
defrag my drives. I map the SolidWorks journal files to my desktop and
delete those also. This seems to have eliminated the slow downs.

Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

 

Devon, I am indeed going to have to learn how to do more sophisticated
setup of SolidWorks to make it run faster. I have managed to avoid
that to date, but it is time to install a new hard drive, OS, and
SolidWorks and set it up from scratch with better control.

For the long run, I do suspect that "Major CAD" applications,
regardless of brand, are fast outpacing the Windows OS. I predict if
MS does NOT deliver a highly efficient Longhorn quickly, the pressures
will build to move high end desktop CAD to flavors of Unix. SolidWorks
can't keep ballooning their code and complexity without the hardware &
OS keeping up. Something gives, and it is speed and that costs us
users big time.

User time loss each year totally dwarfs what the OS costs (even
Windows) & certainly even the $3k cost of a desktop machine. I think
Microsoft is basically at least 6-7 years late in releasing Longhorn.
Apple is now 2 weeks away from releasing its 4th generation of Unix, &
lots of other boxes capable of running Unix are out there. The time
has come.

Speaking of "time loss", I know I am through with beta testing OSs &
CAD applications. Will there be any brave SWks soles who will jump on
the first Longhorn release?

Bo