I agree with Mirko. Amount of cores/cpus doesn't do that much. Amount of RAM is more important. The most important thing however is to find a software that can process large files with clean results. MoI (http://moi3d.com/) gave me the best meshing so far, but it's still 32bit and therefore it chokes on larger files.
sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 10:07 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: cad I would assume that it is more case of hard drive, so starting with nice ssd even ssd raid 0 would be one thing. then need to figure out if those opening and cad things are single or multy threaded at all. in first case single core higher GHz would be better choice then even dual xeons but working at lower Ghz.. whats the use of 72 threads if CAD program uses only one. Just some toughs straight out of the head where I would start. On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Eugene Flormata <eug...@flormata.com> wrote: Hey, my company is asking me to price out a new machine for work. and I wanted to get something that wouldn't choke on big cad files from architecture or other large 1gb+ stl type files does anyone know if that's primarily a CPU issue? my current machine is i7-3770, fine for the 3D I'm doing now, just takes like 3h to open big cad data sometimes. does anyone know if I should get a xeon or some kind of 8-core+ machine? ram, I'm hoping 32g or more videocard, I'm thinking titan or 980ti any advice would be appreciated -- Mirko Jankovic skype: mirko-jankovic https://vimeo.com/mirkoj Need some help with rendering an Redshift project? http://www.gpuoven.com/
