Don Berinati Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 (edited) I'm using VW 12.5 and Architect at present and am thinking of buying Renderworks for more clever output, but am not sure the hardware I have is adequate. Things work quite well with some wait time now, but a big improvement over my older G4 Pbk. Welcoming comments... Thanks! DonB iMac 17" Core 2 (2.0 GHZ)/2MB RAM w/Radeon X1600 graphics @ 128 MB RAM Edited December 19, 2006 by Don Berinati Quote Link to comment
CRSA_890 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Should be just fine, especially if you are not planning on doing any major award wining renderings. For client presentations, council meetings, etc, it will work great. We were doing render-works animations and images on a single PPC G4 800 Mhz, 1 GB ram, 16 MB vid card Quicksilver, and it was OK, ya rough but it worked. Modeling was fine, and we were conscious about material reflectivity (glass), and things that made the render times very long. An image that rendered in 20 min on the old machine takes only a min or two now on a Mac Pro, 2x2.66. So we are happy now. Good luck, Kevin Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Andrew Bell@NV Posted December 19, 2006 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 19, 2006 For RenderWorks, the best possible hardware available isn't that much more powerful than your Core 2 Duo iMac. RenderWorks doesn't use the graphics card, so the x1600 won't be an issue. RenderWorks does make use of multiple processors, so the Mac Pro would be about twice as fast, but that would be about as good as you could get. Quote Link to comment
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