https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/index.cfm?forumid=3 FuseTalk Enterprise Edition https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14681 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:11:15 EST Andy Chase 4 Running Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
The computer is a Pentium Quad Core running 4gb of Ram.
We have recently been rendering machinery in photoworks and have not been getting satisfactory results so we did a pack and go on an architectural gate model to our re-sellers Solidsolutions to see what they could do with it.
They sent back the files and a jpeg of what tthey had done. As all the settings were already set so all we needed to do was render the model using the camera angle supplied and hey presto it would look the same although it didn't. There was a slight amount of pixilation and the overall quality was much worse even with Anti-aliasing at very high.
We do get another problem with this card when trying to spin the models it sticks and only a section of the model still spins in the view window. Then after a few seconds it catches up.
Has anyone else experienced problems with this card or know of any solutions to our problem?
I'm baffling myself with a lot of info about OpenGl at the moment and not getting very far.
The other wierd thing is I have the home copy of 2008 on my laptop which is only a dual core AMD with an ATI X1250 and it renders and produces far better results in Photoworks than the work machine.

Find attached the two examples of the gate.
]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14564 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:21:29 EST Jeff Loeffelman 10
Option 1:
Lenovo Thinkstation D10
(1) Xeon Quad Core E5420 2.50 GHz 1333FSB 12 MB L2 Cache
8gb ECC DDR2 PC2-5300 SDRAM
(2) 146gb SAS Hard Drive - 15000 rpm RAID 1
(1) Quadro FX 1700

Option 2:
XiŽ MTowertm PCIe Workstation
(1) IntelŽ CoreŽ2 Duo E8600 OverClocked Silent Water Cooling @+-4.00GHz- 45nm 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache Dual-Core VT EM64T
4gb DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400
(2) 150GB 10000RPM SATA 150MB/s WD Raptor X NCQ 16MB Cache <9ms RAID 1
(1) Quadro FX 3700

We do not use photoworks or any rendering, but we will be using microsoft office simultaneously with Solidworks. In Solidworks, we do a lot of split and cavity features. Our assemblies average around 50-100 parts.

Thanks.
]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14558 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:55:44 EST Jeff Wurmser 1
Look at the specs in the Hardware, Display and OS forum branch - there are lots of topics related to computer parts selection for handling such issues.

Regards,Basil ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14543 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:17:39 EST Euan Dykes 2
However, our shared SW files are stored on a Mac Pro running Mac OS 10.5 server. So to get technical the files are written to the server hard disk in UNIX format and the Mac OS has software that tricks the Windows XP clients to thinking the files are actually in NTFS format.

This has never been a reliable setup; as we often get read and write errors. But lately we've been loosing up to 2 days work as the server seems to be restoring an older file, with no explanation.

We are going to trial a NAS formatted to NTFS to store our files (please comment if this has know to be a problem).

But has any one out there had these problems and found a solution? As we've spent a lot of money and time on our hardware and it should work.

Other solutions include: Running Windows XP on the server under boot camp. (but then we loose all the benefits of the UNIX based server)

Regards, Euan. ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14541 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:36:50 EST Peter Yodis 22
http://www.mcadforums.com/foru..._directx_evolution.pdf ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14486 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:19:53 EST Rob Jensen 8
I"ve heard it about 300 times but I'm trying to explain why we need to buy a 64bit OS and saying "that's what i've heard" isn't going very far...

I've tried searching the microsoft website and everything there is Vista.
Thanks ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14454 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:34:32 EST adrian velazquez 3 Options\Performance\Use Software OpenGL it's checked and grayout. help!

nVidia Quadro fx 370
SolidWorks 2008 SP4.0 ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14413 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:53:27 EST Phil Marra 3 I do mostly mold design and I may eventually need to run Mold Flow or Cosmos but for now just SW.
I will set the bar at $3-4K.
I need at least 4 gig ram and I guess I am hearing 64-Vista is the way to go, so thats settled.
I want the largest screen I can get and I dont care about weight or size.
I guess my real question is graphics card I have no idea what to look for and what is available for lap tops.
I keep hearing and leaning towards DEll but I am wondering if anyone has other suggestions (XI possibly?)
]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14276 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:27:01 EST John Giess 3 Thanks
John ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=134&threadid=14270 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:53:00 EST Jeff Wurmser 11