pozo izquierdo Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Hi guys, my first post to this forum, so my apologizes if you have gone through this topic over and over...(I tried the search but did not find exactly what I needed.) Some background of myself: I have used AutoCad for the past 15 years and last autumn I changed to VW 2010 and this spring I upgraded to 2011. I am no engineer, nor architect, I am a baker and an economist doing engineers job ;-) I do investment consulting for bakeries and food factories and almost every time I end up doing layouts of the new production lines. For this purpose I have to show the building walls, columns, doors, sometimes ventilation ducts etc, but only on the principal level. I don't care about the structures or details of those. Then I place the production process equipment in these facilites. I try to go more and more to 3D (for the machines as well) as it gives a better comprehension for the viewers / decision makers who often times have very little or none whatsoever experience in "reading" drawings. Now I start facing the problems with the hardware I have described below. My file sizes go esily up to 60 - 100 MB and especially then trying to work in 3D using Open GL rendering things proceed veeeery slowly. I have received excellent user help from Petri Sakkinen, who seems to be quite a VW guru, but being a Mac user he advised me to come to this forum with my above described problem: Therefore I'm asking advise from the joint wisdom of the forum in case some of you have recently faced a similar issue: What would be TODAY's optimum PC workstation / desktop for running Vectorworks 2011? What computer components to look at? Processor or even multiprocessors? Harddisk speed? Memory size? Video card type? Or what? And please, I'm no computer specialist myself...so let's keep the discussion on my level of comprehension. :blush: Thank you in advance for your comments! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted June 27, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 27, 2011 Hi Ari I would always recommend looking at the main Nemetschek site for the latest information on system requirements, but if you take a look here, you'll find a not-too-technical explanation of what all the bits mean... http://www.vectorworks-training.co.uk/Buy_Vectorworks/Vectorworks_System_Requirements.aspx Hope it helps! Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Intel i7 2600K processor 8GB Ram minimum 1600 MHz Get a good video card Nvidia GTX570 or ATI equivalent Use a Solid State Drive SATA III or better for your OS and Programs (Office, VW) Store drawings and data on HDD. Terabyte drives are cheap these days. Get a SATA III 7200 rpm minimum. Get backup drive or use Carbonite or similar. imho taoist Quote Link to comment
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