RE: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements
Definitely get as much dedicated video memory as you can. We're using a 256 NVidia Quadro NVS 140M, and while we ultimately get a finished product we're happy with, there are issues at times with viewing and manipulation that can be remedied with a more powerful video card. Brian Trail Dept. of Classical Studies, Anthropology and Archaeology Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences 240 Olin Hall Univ. of Akron Akron, OH 44325-1910 (330) 972-7875 From: heama...@aol.com [heama...@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:15 PM To: morphmet@morphometrics.org Subject: Re: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements I'm having the same issue right now. One thing you need to be careful about is you could have a high enough graphics card (mine is 256), but if it is integrated and not dedicated it may still not work. --Heather -Original Message- From: Thomas O'Mahoney tomomaho...@googlemail.com To: morphmet@morphometrics.org Sent: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 2:59 pm Subject: Re: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements Dear Andy, Having used the NextEngine with both the minimum and recommended specs (for scanning humeri)I would advise to go for the recommended specs as a baseline. As you said RAM isn't a problem,I'd put as much as you can in (although to go above 4gb you'll obviously need a 64bit OS) -the scanning program sucks up memory,especially when aligning scans and fusing them. Hope that's of help. Tom O'Mahoney On 21/01/2010, morphmet morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.orgmailto:morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org wrote: Original Message Subject: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:24:58 -0600 From: Andy Grass adgr...@gmail.commailto:adgr...@gmail.com To: morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.orgmailto:morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org Hi everyone, we just got a new Next Engine 3D scanner here at the University of Iowa morphometrics lab and I was wondering if anyone had any experience using it on computers with different hardware. The minimum requirements are 2GB or RAM and a 256MB video card, and the recommended requirements are 4GB of RAM and a 512MB video card. Does anyone have experience using it with both the minimum and recommended requirements? None of the computers we have currently are powerful enough to run it, so we'll have to get a new one. Getting more RAM isn't an issue but most of the default computers that can be ordered from the university come with just a 256MB video card. So if the lower power video card works just fine then that's great, but if the difference in performance with a 512MB card is significant then I'll push for that. Thanks! -- Andy Grass andy-gr...@uiowa.edumailto:andy-gr...@uiowa.edu Grad Student Department of Geoscience University of Iowa -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org =
Re: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements
Dear Andy, Having used the NextEngine with both the minimum and recommended specs (for scanning humeri)I would advise to go for the recommended specs as a baseline. As you said RAM isn't a problem,I'd put as much as you can in (although to go above 4gb you'll obviously need a 64bit OS) -the scanning program sucks up memory,especially when aligning scans and fusing them. Hope that's of help. Tom O'Mahoney On 21/01/2010, morphmet morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org wrote: Original Message Subject: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:24:58 -0600 From: Andy Grass adgr...@gmail.com To: morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org Hi everyone, we just got a new Next Engine 3D scanner here at the University of Iowa morphometrics lab and I was wondering if anyone had any experience using it on computers with different hardware. The minimum requirements are 2GB or RAM and a 256MB video card, and the recommended requirements are 4GB of RAM and a 512MB video card. Does anyone have experience using it with both the minimum and recommended requirements? None of the computers we have currently are powerful enough to run it, so we'll have to get a new one. Getting more RAM isn't an issue but most of the default computers that can be ordered from the university come with just a 256MB video card. So if the lower power video card works just fine then that's great, but if the difference in performance with a 512MB card is significant then I'll push for that. Thanks! -- Andy Grass andy-gr...@uiowa.edu Grad Student Department of Geoscience University of Iowa -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
Re: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements
I'm having the same issue right now. One thing you need to be careful about is you could have a high enough graphics card (mine is 256), but if it is integrated and not dedicated it may still not work. --Heather -Original Message- From: Thomas O'Mahoney tomomaho...@googlemail.com To: morphmet@morphometrics.org Sent: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 2:59 pm Subject: Re: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements Dear Andy, Having used the NextEngine with both the minimum and recommended specs (for scanning humeri)I would advise to go for the recommended specs as a baseline. As you said RAM isn't a problem,I'd put as much as you can in (although to go above 4gb you'll obviously need a 64bit OS) -the scanning program sucks up memory,especially when aligning scans and fusing them. Hope that's of help. Tom O'Mahoney On 21/01/2010, morphmet morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org wrote: Original Message Subject: Next Engine 3D scanner hardware requirements Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:24:58 -0600 From: Andy Grass adgr...@gmail.com To: morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org Hi everyone, we just got a new Next Engine 3D scanner here at the University of Iowa morphometrics lab and I was wondering if anyone had any experience using it on computers with different hardware. The minimum requirements are 2GB or RAM and a 256MB video card, and the recommended requirements are 4GB of RAM and a 512MB video card. Does anyone have experience using it with both the minimum and recommended requirements? None of the computers we have currently are powerful enough to run it, so we'll have to get a new one. Getting more RAM isn't an issue but most of the default computers that can be ordered from the university come with just a 256MB video card. So if the lower power video card works just fine then that's great, but if the difference in performance with a 512MB card is significant then I'll push for that. Thanks! -- Andy Grass andy-gr...@uiowa.edu Grad Student Department of Geoscience University of Iowa -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
