performances issues
Recomputing the timeline mostly stresses the geometric modeling kernel of a CAD system.
In case of Fusion 360 (and Autodesk Inventor) that is ASM or Autodesk Shape Manager.
The math and algorithms involved in these kernels don't lend themselves to multicore parallel processing, so most of it is single core. That is particularly true for design history based parametric CAD software.
So as @g-andresen has stated single core main clock frequency and boost clock frequency are the main contributors.
I will add:
4) design practices
This may even be more important than anything else. Things like: Don't use sketch patterns for any significantly sized patterns. Or, don't put 2000 local components in your design (partition sub-systems into external components). How you use Fusion is perhaps even more important than what kind of computer you are using, or its capabilities. No matter how fast of a computer you have, if you are using it to do inefficient things, you will always hit a performance ceiling. And, on the other end - there are people productively using Fusion on much-less capable machines that are successfully designing significantly-sized designs.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
@jeff_strater wrote:
I will add:
4) design practices
In my humble opinion, that covers 90% of the performance problems people encounter with Fusion 360.
All too often, however, that feedback is not received well ...
Yes! I explained the reasons for that in a post above.
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