Our IT department is really taken by the Nvidia Grid (virtual graphics card). Now I saw that SW 2014 has a supported driver for it and I would think that future versions will be provided with approved drivers as well.
It does look something that has lots of potential. Instead of getting serious graphics cards for each workstation one should be able to work on even the most basic computer with the most basic graphics card in it and still be able to not only access files but even work with seriously heavy assemblies and parts and that, if need be, even while being on site connecting to the server over the net.
Has anyone used it? Are their any qualms or specific difficulties?What kind of experiences do you have with it?
Had a trial of this from our local vendor and it works like a champ.
It is dependent on network bandwidth but not too taxing. Each GRID box can run up to 8 SolidWorks users.
We tried ours and connected via wireless and SolidWorks behaved as if it was installed locally. Very impressive.
At 25K + subscription for the hardware, it isn't cheap. But saves a ton of money in the long run because you don't need to continuous update drivers, service packs, etc.
Well worth it in my opinion.
We plan on rolling it out sometime next year for a bunch of our users.