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Hardware for the CAD Professional, Part 5: Hard Drives
In part 1 of Hardware for the CAD Professional, we reviewed the basics of system requirements. In part 2, we defined some commonly used terms. In part 3, we talked about processors and how they can...
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Select the Right System Configuration for AutoCAD 2012
Whether you are an individual user upgrading to AutoCAD 2012 design and documentation software or a CAD manager/IT professional upgrading the entire company, selecting the right system configuration is...
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Find the Optimal Hardware Configuration for ArchiCAD
One of the most common questions our tech staff gets from customers is “What is the best hardware config for ArchiCAD?” It’s easy to go overboard and buy the most expensive of everything, but many...
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Hardware Considerations for Maximizing the Performance of Vectorworks 2012...
In September we announced the release of the 2012 version of Vectorworks® software. The release contains more than 100 performance and usability improvements to help users save time and increase their...
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The Best Hardware Configuration for SolidWorks CAD Software
Optimizing hardware for SolidWorks is essential for getting the most out of this heavy-hitting CAD application, as we’ve discussed on CADspeed previously. So we were thrilled when the SolidWorks forum...
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CAD Workstation Storage, Part 1: The Evolving Tradeoffs Between HDD and SSD
When it comes to thinking about what should go in our workstations, we — both hardware suppliers and users— too often dwell on the glitzier technology inside, the “speeds and feeds.” How many CPU cores...
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CAD Workstation Storage, Part 2: Guidelines for Choosing HDD or SSD
This series is comparing hard disk drives (HDD) versus solid state drives (SSD) for CAD workstation storage. Read part 1 here. Now there’s no one answer that fits all when it comes to choosing any...
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RAID for the CAD Workstation
RAID is an option you’ll likely want to consider for a new workstation, depending on the model you choose. The acronym stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, and refers to the redundancy that...
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Optimizing Your Revit Workstation for Point Clouds
Reality capture is a boom business for the building industry. With roughly 5 million existing commercial buildings in the United States alone, it’s easy to understand why. Laser-scanner-based reality...
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Solid State Drives for CAD Workstations
Hard drives, and SA-SCSI drives especially, face growing competition from a new breed of storage device: the solid-state drive (SSD). An SSD stores data in solid-state memory — that is, SRAM chips —...
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