CAD Station

[Lobstaman]

Hey Guys,

 

A Little help with building a CAD station if you could. My data files from DCX and GM are getting upwards of 150MB. Need a new system ASAP. Any Ideas?

 

Thanx, Ron

[DavidB]

Ron welcome,

do a search im sure will find a lot of info.

[Lobstaman]

Search MasterCam Forums?

 

Thanx, David

[Bullines]

Simply, put. Get the fastest CPU with the most cache that you can afford. Get the most RAM that you can afford (1GB or more). Get a proper workstation class video card like something from nVIDIA's QuadroFX line. Get the fastest hard drives that you can afford (SATA or SCSI). The rest doesn't matter as much.

[P_Scott]

Lobstaman,

 

With your handle I was mistaking you for someone in New England. Welcome to the forum. DavidB is directing you to the forum topic search link, directly below the "New Poll" button above the topic box, just to the right of the large Mastercam logo. Type in the words CAD Workstation for your search terms and you'll be sure to find much info. HTH

[Brent Wilkerson]

Or just click here...

 

Good luck!!

[Lobstaman]

Thanx guys, Thinking of a dual Xeon Precision workstation from Dell w/2gig memory and SATA. Already have an ATI FireGL Z1 Pro 128mb video card. Whaddya think?

[gcode]

I've got a P3.2 EE Dell workstation at home

and a 3.2 Xeon Dell workstation at work.

Other than that, the 2 machines are nearly identical.

The Pentium smokes the Xeon all day long.

Bullines says its the 2meg L3 cache on the proccessor that makes the difference.

I've bought 3 machines from the Dell Outlet and never had trouble with any of them

Dell Outlet Store

 

 

edit: just noticed the ATI card.

That will give you trouble with Mastercam

The Quadro 3400 Dell puts on their workstation

is as good as it gets for Mastercam

 

[ 01-26-2005, 04:47 PM: Message edited by: gcode ]

[Bullines]

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Webby says its the 2meg L3 cache on the proccessor that makes the difference.

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I'm pretty sure I said it

[Matthew]

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ATI FireGL Z1 Pro 128mb video card

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From what I've read on this forum, the ATI cards do not work 100% with Mastercam.

[Lobstaman]

Thanx, Guys. One of these days I'll be one of the people posting answers instead of questions.

 

-Ron

[Lee.]

Ron,

 

Probably not a great card for cad work.

 

I used to use one had to give it away and get an NVIDIA card.

 

My 2 Cents.

[Gilberto]

We do complex molds all in 3D with Mastercam Solids.

Fastest Hardware:

AMD64 3500, 2GB RAM, SATA disk 120GB,VGA GeForce

Its faster then the fastest available Intel Xeon!

 

Gilberto

www.grandesoft.pt

[Lee.]

Bullines aka Chris, what processors have this kind of cache?

 

also how much of a difference is the SATA hard drive making over the IDE ATA ones?

 

Thanks in Advance.

[Bullines]

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Bullines aka Chris, what processors have this kind of cache?

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P4 Extremes (be aware...have good case cooling ready)

 

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also how much of a difference is the SATA hard drive making over the IDE ATA ones?

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In the case of CAD/CAM workstations...enough, IMO

 

Again, keep the case cool

[Lee.]

Thanks again.

[Lucky]

Just for the record, the ATI Fire cards do not have the problems associated with the other ATI offerings intended for gamers. The Fire line of cards are intended for CAD and have excellent Open GL support. They are rock solid with Mastercam.

[Haroon]

Gilberto

Sir you can't beat my Xeon

 

Dell precision 670 3.6Ghz Xeon 1 Mb cash

3 GB Ram pc3200 ECC

3 X SCSI 73 GB 15,000 rpm HD raid 3

Nvidia Quadro FX 3400 256 MB

 

Regards

[Lee.]

Dell precision 670 3.6Ghz Xeon 1 Mb cash

 

Is this how much it cost?

 

If so what currency is that.

 

Just a chuckle for the morning.

[Haroon]

Lee

 

It's CD$. From Dell Canada 7500 CD$ with Hi-Performance PERC320 SCSI RAID Card ,man this workstation is amazing , go with SCSI HD they Worth the money , good luck

 

Regards