Dual Processors.

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

We do a lot of large assemblys. Most of the time, they get real slow. We
have done some things to improve the speed like not using iparts for
fasterers....

How much would dual processors improve the overall speed of IV?

Thanks for your input.

Mark Smith
Air Gage Co.

[Anonymous]

It would only help with the IDW drawing view generation.

MechMan

[Anonymous]

Dualies help with number crunching aspect of IV. This means when you are
creating complex extrusions, such as curved text to a surface, that cause
the machine to stall for a few minutes "thinking". If you find that you are
sitting their waiting for things to render, then dualies will help you to
cut your wait time in half ( in the best case ).

However, dualies do not help framerate loss, caused by the videocard trying
to paint too many textured triangles. If you find that the picture stutters
from low framerate, then you need to upgrade your videocard.

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"Mark Smith" wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> We do a lot of large assemblys. Most of the time, they get real slow. We
> have done some things to improve the speed like not using iparts for
> fasterers....
>
> How much would dual processors improve the overall speed of IV?
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Mark Smith
> Air Gage Co.
>
>

[Anonymous]

the only way they help in that aspect is that your pc is free to do another
task. they wont make the crunching go any faster. your pc just isnt tied up
while its thinking.


Matt

[Anonymous]

Sorry Ashley, but IV doesn't take adavantage of dual processors in anything but IDW's.



Now while IV is number crunching you could go work in another process at full second CPU speed utilizing the second processor.



MechMan

[Anonymous]

Yup, that is what I meant, since you have two
processors in your system, it is possible to set the affinity of the
applications so that windows is running off one processor, and inventor is
running off it's own processor.

They really should code IV to be a true
multithreaded SMP application.

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Sorry
Ashley, but IV doesn't take adavantage of dual processors in anything but
IDW's.

Now while IV is number crunching you could go work in another process at
full second CPU speed utilizing the second processor.

MechMan