Gastje88

The way I was told once is that the solving is done single threaded is because the solution of one solve can have consequences for the next one, so when the tasks are spread over multiple threads you can have calculations that have unknown inputs. In my opinion this should be possible to do for parts in an assembly that don't have any external references, but somehow they haven't figured that out yet.

Thanks for all the replys, and the link is very useful in choosing the right cpu then. Of course more RAM is better with these kind of programs. but thanks to confirm my concerns. I'm a step closer to configuring my set-up. Kind regards

Hi all, I'm new to the forum, familiar with the content of Linus. I'm an mechanical engineer in Holland and have a lot of experience with solidworks and Inventor. Looking at all the game pc builds I started to make some plans of making one for myself to replace my old crappy laptop. Although I also want to be able to do some 3d modeling on it. Now in the experience I have the most parametric cad programs can only run calculations on 1 core (because solving a model happens sequential). I have recently worked on a pc that was equipped with a p2000 gpu, but when the model was struggling the gpu had a 3% load. So I thought, is a gpu a requirement for 3d work? Do I need as many cores as possible for CAD work? Hope the community can enlighten me a bit on the requirements for CAD programs as I don't see the use for many cores and gpu power ( except when rendering images of course) Aldo never saw a video about cad stations which I would like to see ;) Thanks in advance,