Julian,
I'm in a similar situation, although not as bad as Gary. Assuming someone
is just starting to use ADT as is therefore likely using the simpler
functions (walls, doors, windows) for mainly 2D drafting, and not the more
advanced functions (rendering, etc.), are the requirements for ADT on par
with those for AutoCAD 2004?
Gary, if money is tight, you may want to look at a processor upgrade. Check
out www.powerleap.com. You might be able to go to a 1.4 GHz, although it is
a Celeron processor. I've had pretty good luck with there products.
However, as Paul refered to, RAM is just as, if not more, critical.
Jason Peterson
CAD/IT Manager
Scholer Corporation
"Julian Gonzalez [Autodesk]"
wrote in message
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Hi Gary,
You certainly can run ADT 2004 on a machine that meets the AutoCAD 2004
system requirements. However, you will probably find that many features will
suffer from slow performance. For example, use of materials with surface
hatch turned on, viewing texture materials in shaded views, and certainly
using VIZ Render to generate visualizations. There may also be other areas
that perform below expectations, but the ones I listed are probably the most
impacted.
However, I would certainly recommend upgrading your RAM to a minimum of
512MB...but the more the better!
Cheers,
Julian
"Gary Lafrenière" wrote in message
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> We are a small design office using AutoCad 2000. We currently have three
> licenses (2 ADT2 + 1 ADT2i). Although they are ADT licenses, we are only
> using them as Vanilla CAD. They are currently installed on the following
> Dell computers: P3 450MHz (256MB RAM), P3 800MHz (256MB RAM), and P3
866MHz
> (384 MB RAM). The last one is mine. We also just purchased a new Dell P4
> 2.4Ghz with 512MB RAM. Unfortunately, our AutoCAD 2000 is not compatible
> with Windows XP Pro which was installed in the new PC.
>
> I just returned from an AutoCAD/ADT 2004 presentation. I was very
impressed
> with the features of 2004 and would love to upgrade. Upon my return to
the
> office, I looked over the brochures. I noticed that the Recommended
System
> Requirements may pose a problem for us. The "recommended" system for
> AutoCAD 2004 is a P3 800MHz (128MB RAM). For ADT 2004 the "recommended"
> system is MUCH higher, a P4 1.4GHz (512MB RAM).
>
> Our current computers meet the "recommended" system for AutoCAD 2004,
> however, they are inadequate for ADT 2004. In order for us the upgrade to
> ADT 2004 AND use it, we will need to purchase two new computers. This
will
> be difficult since we just purchased a new PC and Plotter as well as a new
> large-format xerox copier.
>
> I'm trying to convince my boss (owner of firm, who doesn't use computers),
> that we need to upgrade our computers in order to upgrade our AutoCAD
> software. I don't see this happening soon. He wants the new software
> installed on our current computers. I don't want to "downgrade" our
> licenses to AutoCAD 2004, because I really want to start using ADT in the
> near future.
>
> So here are my questions (to Autodesk):
> 1. Are the "recommended" requirements also considered "minimum
> requirements" and would we be able to install ADT 2004 on our current
> computers?
> 2. And if I did NOT use any of the ADT features (only vanilla AutoCAD)
> would I still be able to use it on these computers?
>
> TIA,
>
> Gary Lafrenière
> CAD Manager
> Plan B Retail Design
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