New help topic suggestion?

[bigeddymachineshop]

Hi Fusion Team,

I've finally figured out why two newly-built PC's weren't faster at CAM generation than a 2010's pc, and I think it merits an easily-findable help topic sticky.

On both new PC's, F360 defaults to using only the four e-cores which are capped at 3.6Ghz, and are unaffected by the 5Ghz intel turbo boost.

Disabling e-cores in the BIOS has cut tool path generation time by 50-80%.

Generating toolpaths is now spread across 8 p cores running at 4.5Ghz, and some toolpaths will use all eight P-cores pegged at 100%.

It calculated a 1hr long rotary contour path in about 70 seconds.

There have been a few posts on the forum about it, but they never came up until I specifically searched for them.

Anyway, even if it doesn't warrant a help topic, hopefully this post might help someone in the future.

[jeff.pek]

Hi -

Can you tell me a little more about your machine? What OS/version are you using?

Thanks,

  Jeff

[bigeddymachineshop]

Hi Jeff,

One PC is a Windows 10, with an Intel 12700k and an RX9070

The other PC is also Windows 10, with a 13700k, and a GTX1080.

[james.probert · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As a result of this post, we were able to identify what was causing this behaviour, and intend to fix it in a future update.

Our testing also revealed that the restriction to only operate on the e-cores does not occur on Windows 11, so you could also consider converting to Windows 11 to take full advantage of the power of your machines immediately.

Thanks,

James

[bigeddymachineshop]

That's awesome! 

Its fantastic how engaged you all are with users on the forum.

Thanks for the update!