solidworks con scheda geforce

[mixture7]

Hello everyone,
I'm a mechanical designer. work as an employee in a company (automatic machine sector) where we use solidedge and autocad.

This is my first message, and I leave immediately with a request! Forgive me, I know it wouldn't be done. in the future I hope to make my contribution to the community.

arrival to the next: I would like to try a demo of solidworks to evaluate its characteristics, but I would need an opinion from those who use it habitually.

is it essential to have a nvidia picture (or ati fire) in your pc or could I be able to work with a common geforce?

I stress that I should not work with large assemblies, but only with small groups or single parts.

Thank you.
Lorenzo

 

[Mike1967]

Hello everyone,
I'm a mechanical designer. work as an employee in a company (automatic machine sector) where we use solidedge and autocad.

This is my first message, and I leave immediately with a request! Forgive me, I know it wouldn't be done. in the future I hope to make my contribution to the community.

arrival to the next: I would like to try a demo of solidworks to evaluate its characteristics, but I would need an opinion from those who use it habitually.

is it essential to have a nvidia picture (or ati fire) in your pc or could I be able to work with a common geforce?

I stress that I should not work with large assemblies, but only with small groups or single parts.

Thank you.
Lorenzo

I have worked for years with a repentum iv at 3,2 ghz with 2 gb of ram and graphics card nvidia 6800gt.
At home, I currently have a core2 duo e6750 at 2.66ghz, 2 gb ram
and video card nvidia 260gtx and do not match any problem if not slow in renderings.

 

[cacciatorino]

I have worked for years with a repentum iv at 3,2 ghz with 2 gb of ram and graphics card nvidia 6800gt.
At home, I currently have a core2 duo e6750 at 2.66ghz, 2 gb ram
and video card nvidia 260gtx and do not match any problem if not slow in renderings.

I confirm, I also worked, and sometimes I work again, with non-framed cards (use if but I think it changes very little). performance is satisfying, although I usually renounce to the effects type real-view, reflections, etc.

 

[mixture7]

thanks to mike1967 e hunter for answers.

about graphic cards and workstations mark that in the number of this month of professional pc, there is an interesting comparison between four portable workstations (price issue 2000 euro): one of the, a fujitsu, a hp and a lenovo.

are all equipped with nvidia picture, except the hp. the rest of the equipment is similar among all workstations.

in solidworks tests (there are tests for different cad) the result of the hp is definitely lower (indicatively a score of 26 against a score of 7).

But I wonder what practical meaning these tests have.

as indicated by mike1967 e hunter, if you do not need to makendering and the like, are you okay cards like geforce? Can someone indicate their experience with solidworks 2010 and windows xp?

Thank you.
Lorenzo

 

[re_solidworks]

to have a picture counts and a lot, but it is not indispensable. I explain: you also work with a geforce, but the performance is much lower than a picture that "eye" has the same characteristics.
In any case, if the geforce gives you problems, you can enable an option that makes it go well at the expense of performance.
It is not said that it is necessary, I did not use geforce for years, I took a consumer laptop to do stupid things and I had to enable it because I had problems displaying in document changes.
on this forum you can also find the realview software on geforce. read before downloading it because it cancels the card warranty.

 

[sampom]

as indicated by mike1967 e hunter, if you do not need to makendering and the like, are you okay cards like geforce? Can someone indicate their experience with solidworks 2010 and windows xp?

with a good gefo you turn it quietly for "normal" use (unexaggerated asses and tables). to the limit if feasible you can edit it in the picture or activate the patch for the real view (if you care) that you find in this forum between the useful resources for users. ..

and in any case for the rendering of solidworks (but also most dedicated external programs) the video card is influential, does the whole processor.. and here they serve well equipped and lending cpus.

greetings
Mar

 

[SolidUser]

what I would like to add is that currently solidworks relies heavily on opengl libraries (not those emulated by the operating system), present through certified video card drivers.
What does that mean?
means that solidworks could fall into certain situations, if you use uncertified cards.
What situations?
no one knows, if not sending a log to solidworks corp. through the var.

the solidworks corp. strongly recommends the use of certified video cards, because in case of problems, they can possibly correct them.

That said, the roads are 3 :
1) use certified cards, there are also a few hundred euros
2) use non-certified cards and moddate them
3) use uncertified tabs and rub any crashes

my personal opinion is, that if you use it at home, to complete a job or other things, you can use non-certified cards, but at work, I don't think the datore will kick you 500 euros on a pc, since a designer is eight hours with the program, I recommend using certified cards.

 

[mixture7]

That said, the roads are 3 :
1) use certified cards, there are also a few hundred euros
2) use non-certified cards and moddate them
3) use uncertified tabs and rub any crashes

my personal opinion is, that if you use it at home, to complete a job or other things, you can use non-certified cards, but at work, I don't think the datore will kick you 500 euros on a pc, since a designer is eight hours with the program, I recommend using certified cards.

There are no problems with work, we have workstations with picture cards.

my "problem" is that I am about to buy a laptop for home, on which I would like to install some demos of solidworks (in office use solidedge).

are undecided between a use of about three years with picture card or, more or less at the same price, a new laptop with a geforce card. I have excluded a new pc with picture card because it seems to me that the prices exceed a lot of 1000 euros.

This laptop would not use it to work, and at most I would open single parts or small assemblies. I would not like to buy a new pc and then not be able to try solidworks.. .

If what I risk is just to have some crashes, then I would turn to a homeless laptop, if instead I risk not even starting the program then I would prefer to have a used "certified".

Lorenzo

 

[re_solidworks]

If you want advice for the "consumer" take a laptop that only has geforce and not intel gma+geforce.
This technology (which is called green if not mistaken) is no longer supported by nvidia and there is scarcity of drivers around.

 

[sem81]

I put myself in the discussion to give you my experience and, if possible, to have advice.
use sw from about one year and on different platforms. in office I use a core2 duo and picture card (now I do not remember the model) and I confirm that I have not noticed obvious differences with an athlon x2 4800 and nvidia 8800gt. I now bought a laptop, for the precision toshiba a660-11m (core i7 - nvidia m330 1gb), and the difference of performance is obvious (in worse). I therefore suppose it is a problem of settings or video card (although the latest generation is still a medium-low band card). the decrease in performance is drastic in solidcam, especially during simulation (solidverify 3d).
If I have wrong post or have written chestnuts please forgive my inexperience.

 

[re_solidworks]

a good laptop (as performance) mounts at least one picture 1800 and costs coarse 2000 euros.
the 330 m is not even of last generation (it already has an annex) and around there is the 4xx series. For example, the consumer laptop I have mounted a 420m with 2 gb of dedicated memory and it is not even to compare to the m6400 with 3700 picture that I use habitually (despite the latter being 2 years old).