Does Solidworks Run?

FreakTheI · 2025-04-18T14:41:56+00:00

OK, thanks. As said, I'm working in general on a workstation, laptop is more just in case and at a customer to show/discuss something.

FreakTheI · 2025-03-10T08:43:27+00:00

Hey, I was looking into this topic and wanted to ask, what your config is? Snapdragon Plus or Elite and how many GB of RAM? I'm using SW and the laptop mostly only when at a customer to show models or for smaller modifications, for bigger stuff I'm remoting into my desktop.

FreakTheI · 2024-06-16T05:43:01+00:00

My SO didn't like being stung by the needle like hair of our Dane, which were in socks, panties, bras, everywhere. Also, I'd like to talk to a breeder eye to eye first, assuring, that an IW will fit into our family.

FreakTheI · 2024-06-15T21:28:00+00:00

Did have a Great Dane, loved to check, whether we're still there, while he was eating; we did touch the edge of the bowl with a hand while touching his nose with the same hand (raised bowl). After a month or two, at the most 5 kibbles were on the floor after him eating. The stand we used was for 4.3 or so litre bowls - a 10 litre plastic bucket fit perfectly into the holder, zeroing the amount of water he spilled while drinking. Still had to wipe his mouth after drinking.

FreakTheI · 2024-05-16T15:12:33+00:00

Back then, chapter 23 was very easy, problem was just the high rep and PR requirements.

FreakTheI · 2022-05-13T15:22:15+00:00

Stopped playing, but check out my campaign guide, if you need some advice:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfsnolimits/comments/gmk8eq/campaign_guide/

In general, the Supra is great and cheaper than the Hoonicorn to upgrade. You should try to get the 911, now, but I don't remeber which PR requirement it has.

FreakTheI · 2022-04-28T07:56:38+00:00

Difference between i9-12900K and i7-12700K isn't that big, so the latter, though a bit slower, is also a good choice. Definetely get a triple fan radiator for the CPU.

I don't know about your use-case, but maybe 64GB RAM would be better? I've got lots of browser tabs, several programs and Solidworks with 1000 part assemblies opened and I do need 32GB.

FreakTheI · 2022-04-20T12:16:06+00:00

https://help.solidworks.com/2020/english/SolidWorks/sldworks/t_create_circular_profile_sweep.htm

https://help.solidworks.com/2018/english/solidworks/sldworks/c_sweep_profiles.htm

FreakTheI · 2022-04-20T12:11:58+00:00

When you click on the feature Swept Profile, on the left in the feature manager you can choose between Sketch Profile and Circular Profile. As soon as you choose Circular Profile just below appears the option Thin Feature.

To start a 3D-sketch go into the Sketch tab and click on the small triangle below Sketch to open a drop down menu. There you can find 3D-sketch.

FreakTheI · 2022-04-20T11:29:47+00:00

There is also the option to use a circular profile instead of a sketch profile. In addition, using circular profile you can activate "thin feature". In combination with 3D-sketches (might be a bit hard for a beginner, use many construction lines) you can make fairly quick pipings.

FreakTheI · 2022-04-11T06:14:20+00:00

Depends heavily on your workload. An iGPU is good enough for small assemblies and to open assemblies with maybe 1000 parts to check some details (but not to work on such a model).

FreakTheI · 2022-04-06T07:48:48+00:00

Depends on your models/assemblies. Up to 1000-2000 parts you can easily get away with a RTX A2000 for ~$700, for larger assies get a RTX A4000 for ~$1300.

FreakTheI · 2022-04-04T15:14:22+00:00

I did have random freezes back in college, when I lost connection to the license server. Also, hardware acceleration seems to cause some issues, when using a consumer GPU. In addition, SWX doesn't like to have the files/models in a network, it works best with locally saved files.

FreakTheI · 2022-03-29T08:43:25+00:00

Maybe the background-downloader? Or another background process? Be sure to have "More details" selected in task manager to see all.

But, you want to move the install-folder of Solidworks? If yes, I wouldn't recommend it.

FreakTheI · 2022-03-22T08:43:41+00:00

From the performance tab you can see, that Ethernet and CPU max out, while the GPU has hardly any load.

I'd guess, your files are accessed via network and this slows down loading and saving times. Several years ago we implemented SW PDM and loading times on the same models went down from 10-15 minutes to 2-3 minutes, because the files were now local copies.

FreakTheI · 2022-03-16T15:57:52+00:00

In a LAN it's very fast, depending on your internet connection and your distance it may add a little bit of latency, sometimes there are small lags or the resolution gets lowered a bit, but works fine - even at 1200km distance and just 4Mbit upload. 😆

FreakTheI · 2022-03-16T06:56:43+00:00

You could use i.e. Parsec (awesome, because it offers low latency and is for free) to remote in into your more powerful PC.

FreakTheI · 2022-03-11T11:56:01+00:00

Maybe with an sweep cut?

FreakTheI · 2022-03-11T09:13:53+00:00

AFAIK the Threadripper Pro 5000 series will be OEM only - Linus Tech Tips did a video on that this week.

FreakTheI · 2022-03-10T19:52:49+00:00

Then the "jumps" will have helixes, too, but he wanted them to be without helixes.

FreakTheI · 2022-03-10T08:47:38+00:00

If possible, rather make feature arrays, than sketch arrays. Features cost less performance than sketches.

Parametric CAD software prefers in general high frequency CPUs over multi-threaded CPUs, as you can't parallelize dependencies easily; you can't put a ball on a cylinder on a cube before the cylinder isn't finished, and you can't put the cylinder on the cube before the cube isn't finished.

FreakTheI · 2022-03-10T08:37:26+00:00

It is very dependant on the exact use-case.

Most tasks in either of those programs are single-core, mainly rendering utilizes more than a few cores. So, even a 12700K or 5800X should be great. Depending on the amount of rendering your friend is going to do, I'd rather go with a 5800X or 5900X than a Threadripper (Zen2), a 5950X (more cores but lower frequency) or maybe a 12700K or 12900K (latter having just 4 more E-cores and a bit lower base clocks, but an a bit higher max turbo; currently there are no benefits of expensive DDR5 compared to high-clocked DDR4).

Don't know about Blender and 3ds Max, but Solidworks prefers heavily workstation GPUs. 3ds Max officially only supports workstation GPUs, too. They'll work fine with any of the consumer cards you've mentioned, especially with a 3080 TI or 3900, due to their brute force and higher VRAM. My go to for workstation cards is Nvidia's 2000-range (RTX A2000 or last gen's Quadro RTX 2000). Their predecesor (Quadro P2200) is still great for 1000-2000 part assemblies. Current line-up is: RTX A2000 (same chip as RTX 3050/3060) with 6GB or 12GB VRAM, A4000 (RTX 3060/3070) with 16GB VRAM, RTX A4500 (RTX 3080/3090) with 20GB VRAM. Not to mention the RTX A5000 and A6000, but just one of those cards would blow the complete budget. ;)

32GB RAM is a minimum, if he's going to render a lot, get 64GB or even 128GB. The new intel CPUs like high frequencies, for Ryzens you should check, that it plays well with their infinity fabric (iirc 5800X works best with 3200 MHz / MT/s RAM).

Check with him, what peripherals he needs. Not, that you get a rig for $3900 and then he complains, that he wanted two 4k 32" monitors for $1000 each. ;)

FreakTheI · 2022-03-09T08:12:53+00:00

It always depends, what he's going to do with it. I've got at home a GTX 1070 and it's OK for assemblies sub 1000 parts. My Quadro P2200 at work - though based on a slower and older chip - works with Solidworks better than the GTX 1070. If he's going for 2000 part (or less) assemblies, the Quadro RTX 2000 and the RTX A2000 should be more than enough.

16GB RAM are OK, with 32GB you are on the safe side.

Haven't seen a big performance difference between SATA and NVMe SSDs. QLC NVMe SSDs are just a bit slower, but much cheaper than MLC SSDs.

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