Intel NUC for Inventor?

[-niels-]

Hello everyone,

I'm curious to know if anyone has any experience with Intel NUC's and running inventor.

My colleague's PC broke down and now the IT company we send it to for repairs is looking to replace it with on of those NUC's.

Are those suitable for use with Inventor?

I'd never seen or heard of them before now, they seem ok for what is promoted on intel's site but i don't see any proper mention of using them as a 3D CAD system.

All opinions welcomed!

Regards,

Niels.

[DarrenP]

from reading the website

i would say no it wouldn't be suitable with inventor

[alewer]

How are you using Inventor? How large are your assemblies? How complex are your parts? Do you do much rendering? Analysis? What are the specifications of the machine that this would replace?

[-niels-]

Looked a bit further into this, it looks like the graphics card would be the major drawback for this.

So i'm feeling the same.

@Allewer:

Our assemblies are 1500~3000 open documents, with mostly simple geometry but also some more complex parts.

My colleague doesn't do rendering or analysis, that is left to me with the stronger system.

I'll have to see if i can find the system specs, but the machine was at least 2 years old.

[joltek01]

One of the contractors is running NUC Skull Canyon with 2 off 1TB SSDs arrayed

2 x 16 GB 3000 HZ ram

4k screen

Very Very Fast.

Now 2 other contractors in the office have ordered the bits after running their models and

IDWs on his machine with huge time savings. In the order of 10 to 100 times faster depending on task.

Using the onboard Intel graphics !

[-niels-]

Good to know, might be worth looking into again when we need to replace a pc the next time.
Inventor isn't that heavily reliant on the graphic card, so it might work for that...

(Still don't think it would be good for 3DS Max, but we only need one system for that so...)

The time savings you're talking about; 10 to 100 times faster compared to what?
What specs did the previous computers have?

[joltek01]

Radeon Software Version - 17.8.1
Radeon Software Edition - Crimson ReLive
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Memory Size - 4096 MB
Memory Type - GDDR5
Core Clock - 1070 MHz
Windows Version - Windows 7 (Service Pack 1) (64 bit)
System Memory - 48 GB
CPU Type - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz

Note: Have just attached 4K monitor the graphics card above and removed
.NET Framework 4.7 and reinstalled 4.6.2

Unbelievably the rev cloud problem has disappeared. Rev clouds now are
instant.
IDWs generate and regenerate a lot faster.

Am getting a NUC though.

Monitior is a Acer CB281HK