Inventor Professional 2017 System Requirements

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I received an email indicating my new Inventor Professional 2017 was available for download.  Since my workstation is getting a bit old what are the system requirements for the 2017 version?  I currently run Product Design Suite Ultimate 2016.  It works fairly well, slows down a more than I like when rebuilding models with complex shapes that also have many fillets.  Which is about half the time with the stuff I model.

Overview of my current system.  It's an older HP XW 8600 Workstation using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.  It's been and still is a rock solid reliable workstation.  Two 3.4 Ghz dual core Zeon CPU's, Quadro FX 1800 video card, 32 GB ECC type memory, 500 GB Western Digital Velocity Raptor 10K RPM hard drive.  Would upgrading the video card alone help much or is the entire system just a little too old to efficiently run a current version of Inventor? 

Thanks for any input.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi m.granata,

See ths link:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcartic...

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

System Requirements for Autodesk Inventor 2017 Windows
Operating System ¹	64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 10 64-bit Microsoft Windows 8.1 with Update KB2919355 64-bit Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
CPU Type ²	Recommended: Intel® Xeon® E3 or Core i7 or equivalent, 3.0 GHz or greater Minimum: 64-bit Intel or AMD, 2 GHz or faster
Memory ³	Recommended: 20 GB RAM or more Minimum: 8 GB RAM for less than 500 part assemblies
Disk Space	Installer plus full installation: 40 GB
Graphics	Recommended: Microsoft Direct3D 11® or capable graphics card or higher Minimum: Microsoft Direct3D 10® capable graphics card or higher See the Certified Hardware
Display Resolution	1280 x 1024 or higher. Recommended scaling: 100%, 125%, 150% or 200%.
Other	DVD-ROM ⁴ Internet connection for Autodesk® 360 functionality, web downloads, and Subscription Aware access Adobe® Flash® Player 15 ⁵ Microsoft Internet Explorer® 11 or equivalent Full local install of Microsoft® Excel 2010, 2013 or 2016 for iFeatures, iParts, iAssemblies, thread related commands, clearance/threaded hole creation, Global BOM, Parts Lists, Revision Tables, spreadsheet-driven designs and Studio animation of Positional Representations. Excel Starter®, Online Office 365® and OpenOffice® are not supported. 64-bit Microsoft Office is required to export Access 2007, dBase IV, Text and CSV formats. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 or later

[Anonymous]

That's good and bad.  Good, a reason for new or newer hardware.  Bad, this stuff is not free.  I guess some research is in order.  I've lost track with Intel's CPU's, their general release dates ect.

I may do like I have in the past.  Which is you can find off lease HP or Dell Workstations that are a couple of years old.  Select something that was high end when new and there is usually a lot of life still in it.  They usually need a new hard drive and current video card.  I've acquired 2 HP XW8600's that way.  Been using them for at least 4 releases of Inventor.

Thanks,

Mike

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

That's good and bad.  Good, a reason for new or newer hardware.  Bad, this stuff is not free.  I guess some research is in order.  I've lost track with Intel's CPU's, their general release dates ect.

I may do like I have in the past.  Which is you can find off lease HP or Dell Workstations that are a couple of years old.  Select something that was high end when new and there is usually a lot of life still in it.  They usually need a new hard drive and current video card.  I've acquired 2 HP XW8600's that way.  Been using them for at least 4 releases of Inventor.

Thanks,

Mike

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Really no reason you can't run 2017 if you run 2016 just fine.

I'm not seeing anything in the system requirements forcing you to upgrade..

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I wondered about that.  I might try it and see what happens after I finish this project I am working on.  Maybe a better video card might speed up regenerations and rebuilding of models and assemblies.  Honestly, I am not familiar with Intel CPU's newer than what my system has.  This system has been so reliable I haven't had to review/research computer hardware for several years.

Regards,

Mike

[blair]

Check the post on "How Fast is your PC", you will find the CPU core speed is critical. Inventor for modeling can only use a single core, so the faster the clock speed of the CPU, the quicker your machine will be.

If you do a lot of FEA, then the multi core & multi-CPU machines will show much better performance in this area. Drawing View placement also will take advantage of additional CPU cores as well.