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Low end Inventor system: a report

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Anonymous
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‎01-17-2003 05:52 AM
‎01-17-2003 05:52 AM

Low end Inventor system: a report

Everyone's always interested in how various systems do with Inventor.

Several months back I bought a Dell Dimension 4300 1.7G for home use. I
knew I was going to be doing some casual Inventor stuff on it, but didn't
have the money for a hot setup, so I did what I could, getting XP Pro, but
settling for a less expensive Geforce2 Nvidia card and 256Mb ram. The
little goofing around stuff I did caused no problems.

Suddenly I have a job where I'm working from home and need to push my
machine a little harder, but still can't afford a hot new rig just yet. I
upgraded to a PNY 128MB Geforce4 video card, and loaded up a brand new copy
of R6 and dove in.

After a week I'm pretty happy. The modeling I'm doing isn't horribly
complex, and the assemblies aren't huge, but the Dell is handling the fact
that I have to have apps like CorelDraw and some fairly heavy duty sound
editing software on the same machine. I've had a single crash while in
Inventor, but I had another app open at the same time, so I can hardly
complain. I'll bump the ram pretty quick just on general principal, but
that's all I'll need to do before I can go get a real workstation. I'm
stable and productive here with a very reasonably priced machine.

The first time I have to try a 5000 part assembly, I'll let everyone
know how it goes.

Cheers,
Walt
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Anonymous
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‎01-20-2003 02:05 AM
‎01-20-2003 02:05 AM

"Agreed"?

...well no, not quite in agreement there. Cost efficency and production efficiency often go hand in hand. The old addage "takes money to make money" is often times true. For people like us time is more or less everything. Putting aside the "design quality" issue, to deliver a design "on time" requires an efficient setup and that typically takes money. If you don't spend the money it takes to be efficient enough to complete a job on time then you probably won't get the job in the first place.



For example, if I get a large job that will require a massive drawing package then guess what...as soon as that contract is signed I'm off buying a dual CPU setup because that's what it will probably take to stay on schedule. I guarantee you that I'll make up for that $800 cost in no time.



MechMan
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Anonymous
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‎01-20-2003 02:07 AM
‎01-20-2003 02:07 AM

whoa, rich. you lost me. what are "b-rep snapshots" ?? -Joe
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Anonymous
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‎01-20-2003 02:40 AM
‎01-20-2003 02:40 AM

Well I don't profess to be an expert at this but here based on my limited understanding is an analogy. Lets say you gave someone directions like this: go east down to the big green dumpster and take a left, go straight right through the park and take a right. Follow that road until it makes a fork and stay to the right. Keep going until you reach a McDonalds, turn left and go two blocks.

OK now you want the person to go back to the fork in the road and turn left. Early versions of Inventor would have to back up to where you started then start all over until it reached the fork in the road then it would follow the new directions. Now Inventor is smart enough to just back up to the fork in the road.

B-Rep snapshots is caching information about how each feature changed the B-Rep (boundary representation) data.

Rich Thomas
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous
‎01-20-2003 05:13 AM
‎01-20-2003 05:13 AM

Not entirely a one man show it more of a three man
show but anyway.

I have allways bought the latest and thefore the
most expensive equippment but....it ha lasted for 36 months. I know it is
expensive but my livelihood depends on it. I am sitting in front of a
computerscreen for eight to 12 hours a day. I am sitting in my car for half an
hour to one hour a day. Where shoul I put my money?. I admit that my neighbours
do not see my workstation but so what.

HP X4000 dual Xeon 2.4, 2 Gb mem, Quadro 4 pro,
Spaceball 4000. I have only had two chrashed in IV 6

 

Finnur P.


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Like you, I'm a one-gun show, build my own
systems, but I've always accepted the fact that latest-and-greatest software
needs to be able to take advantage of latest-and-greatest hardware, whether I
have it or not.

~Larry


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IMO
the true test of a good software is stability on less than greatest
computers. If it requires a person or company to constanly buy the latest
and greatest system just to run the software its not cost effective.
I
am a 1 man Design business, that is a "new" company, I am having to make due
with my system until I can justify the purchase of a new system. AMD 1.8, xp
pro, 768DDram, GF4 128mb, Bio* MOB, IBM deathstar 40g HDD. I build my own
systems and hope to contine becasue of the money I
save.
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