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Hello all, I'm trying to 3D Model and then 3D print molds for some custom model rocket nozzles. I've used 3D modeling software in the past for many projects such as Cinema 4D and 3DSMaxx, however this is my first experience using AutoCAD. I made a 2d drawing and then revolved it 360 degrees, however this apparently is not considered an exportable solid to an stl file. I understand why what I am trying is not working as technically I only have a surface not necessarily a solid, however I do not understand how to convert this into one. Essentially it's just a cone similar object (keyword similar) that I designed a 2D path for and want to revolve 360 degrees to make a solid. I attached a couple pictures from CAD and linked the .dwg file. The top of the picture is my attempt at making the path into a 3d solid and the bottom of it is the 2 paths that I want to make into 3d solids. Thanks for the help, I know this is a very basic issue. 1.0in Nozzle.dwg
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My dad will be a independent consultant soon and he has asked me to source him a workstation laptop for AutoCAD 2016 I personally have not used AutoCAD so i'm not sure what it needs to run well aside from a quad-core i7 If the price is right i dont mind spending money on upgrading the ram and adding an ssd myself. just looking to hear some feedback on what system specs will really benefit in autocad currently looking at this refurb: (i dont mind upgrading the ram and ssd on my own, this laptop can hold a second hdd in the optical bay) https://www.dellrefurbished.ca/laptops/dell-latitude-e6530-15969.html? EDIT: BTW our budget is around $1000-$1200 CDN okay after a little more searching i see that current NEW models of workstation laptops are really expensive, we may have to consider increasing our budget. but please, looking to hear from actual autocad users, not just looking for the most expensive system
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Hi, I have no idea, how to get the great Linus to read this... but I have entertained myself with your youtube chanel a great deal! And my question is... Can Somebody advise re a work laptop... budget 1200 (EUR) I want to run autocad, but as a novice, and to become better at it... Same with Photoshop And I would like to use the windows 10 virtual multiple desktops thing (That I have never used before...) And work on multiple projects in each... (I am kicking myself that I has to be a laptop...) I like the idea of a 17 inch over a 15... No optical drive.... Could handle a cheeky tomb raider game or DOTA!!! in the hotels... (then the elephant in the room re questions is... Quadro? Really? I am not that much of a pro... and expensive... the maxwell vs the pascal? the 960m vs the 970m... I could even for a couple hundred more, perhaps go for a 1070 in a LAPTOP wow... worth it? just to much info left right and center.., and I realise it is most likely behind the scenes stuff that I dont understand... there was even a google result with the title gtx970m not using the dedicated memory with autocad...but that is faulty I hope! WHere to go... Please USA, and you Linus, could you help me on this topic...
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I'm looking for an AutoCAD LAPTOP for under 1300 CANADIAN before taxes. I don't care if its autocad certified as it all works the same, I was looking at this, https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834861891 it needs to have an i7 or quad core 4gb of vram or more 16 gb ram thanks
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My partners just become a fully qualified architect and up until now has been using my desktop to do all her rendering on, however I've just got a job working from home so will need to have access to my computer at all times. So I'm going to build a new system for her. What would you guys recommend as a workstation pc where no games are actually going to be played on it. Needs to be able to render fast and get the job done in the least amount of time possible. Cheers in advance all.
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I recently downloaded AutoCAD 2018 and Inventor Pro 2018 for school. I downloaded AutoCAD on my SSD and Inventor Pro on my HDD. Inventor Pro opens faster than AutoCAD does and this confuses me. It's a larger program that does primarily 3D modeling and it is on my slower drive. AutoCAD is smaller that does primarily 2D modeling and is on my faster drive. How is this? My SSD is fine, I know so because I've moved games to it from my HDD with drastic improvements. Could this be an optimization thing? CPU: Intel i5-6500 (Skylake) GPU: 1060 6GB RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 SSD: Adata SP550 128GB HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB
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Hey everyone. I work for a property management company and I need some software to create professional looking floor plans. We rent out a property to commercial tenants and each time a new tenant moves in, alterations are made to the property to accommodate that new tenant. New partitions are erected or old partitions are removed and because we are the management company, we need to keep up-to-date plans of the property for fire safety reasons. I have tried using AutoCAD but its obviously very expensive piece of software and as I have never used it before I find it very difficult to work with. Does anyone know of a piece of software which can allow me to make 2D floor plans easily which also doesn't cost to much? I use Windows 10 and it's essential that I am able to print the designs as well. Thanks in advance.
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Hello... So a friend of mine asked me to part and build him a PC which would mainly be used for AutoCAD and sometimes Arduino, Basic, C++ Programing... I built a bunch of PCs before but all of them were for gamers and i have never eaven parted out a pc for CAD and programming so any help is appriciated... I read a lot of different informations around the internet but from what i found out that CAD mostly uses single core performance and while he will not be gaming on this machine i came to realise i should put a quadro card... Lets begin with the graphic card... So as i mentioned i built pcs for gaming so my first thought was like ill put a gtx 1060 in and all good but while i was reading i found out how much better of a performance he would get from a qudro card... So the card in the budget range are the p600, p1000 and p2000 and here i need help which one and why ofcourse the cheaper the better and all deppens on price/performance... For the cpu im preety set on the i5 8400 couse the boost clock of 4.0 gives me almost the i7 7700k performance for literaly half the price but if you have any suggestion they are more than welcome... For the Motherboard i will probably have to go with the Matična ploča ASROCK Z370 Pro4 becouse only one shop in my country has lga 1151 v2 and they only have z370 and this is the cheapest one... Next ram Probably 16GB and if needed later upgrade to 32 GB... Storage i will see what size ssd fits in the budget + 1 or 2 tb hard drive And the Case and PSU not important right now i will chose it later... So like 900$ for GPU,CPU,MB,RAM and storage... Thanks to anyone who helps <3 David
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I am a student and gamer and I only want to spend my money on one thing and I was wondering if it were possible to get the Xbox One X and swap it with another hard drive except with Windows 10 on it? It looks like it's powerful enough to run all the software I need to use with it the only thing is a bit unclear is the graphics it looks similar to the GTX 10 series. I am going to use it with AutoCAD, Pytha, and some Steam games I can't get on console or games that I already own. Thanks in advance. -
Hey all, I'm an architecture student and I'm considering building a desktop to help speed up my work flow a little bit, things are getting a bit slow on my Macbook Pro. Most of the recommendations I see about hardware are general focused around gaming or video editing. I'm trying to figure out what I should be looking for in a GPU and the importance of a GPU compared to CPU to the software I'll be using. I'm pretty much only going to be using this computer for design work not gaming. The bulk of what I work with is vector based. I use Rhino 3d, which is similar to autoCAD, and adobe illustrator quite a bit, some photoshop, but probably more in the future, and some solid modeling software (solidworks and fusion 360), I also do renders using a vray plugin for rhino 3d. The biggest issues I see now on my MBP are in illustrator. I try to do anything with an even somewhat complex file and I get the beachball of death for 5 or so minutes, and when doing renders with vray where it is a crapshoot as to whether the render will run quickly and smoothly, take 8 hours, or freeze and crash after 5 min. There is also general sluggishness throughout most the work I'm doing. My first big question, is whether a workstation graphics card (I'm currently looking at this AMD Radeon Pro https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814105068&ignorebbr=1 ) would outperform a gaming GPU in a dollar for dollar comparison. My priorities right now have reliability and speed about tied. Having programs crash can waste a lot of time, even when I'm saving often. My second big question is how much a GPU matters to the overall system. Should I be focusing more on RAM (and does RAM clockspeed matter for this kind of application)? Should I be focusing more on CPU? I really can't consistent or reliable answers to these question for the given application. Basically, what would be a good approach to make a system that won't seize up constantly in the application given above?
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Now Idk what major am going to take yet, I've decided to change my major and take liberal arts and also take a few classes in engineering, and computer, and business, not sure what major i will choose, it will be decided on witch one, i like and can excel at. but moral of the story is my mother has pointed out that if i go into eng, i would need a computer that can run autocad, or if i go for computer stuff, i will need stronger programs, what exactly i am not sure, because there are many fields in the computer majors. but i was first thinking about buying about a 500 dollar computer at the max max, but after mom explaining that i would need more, and that they would also help contribute, i am not sure what computer would be the best, best buy does have their college student discount so might be best to look there. but any pointers be great -
Hi there, I'm building a new PC for my work. This pc is, at the moment, only for building bodies of trucks and vans with AutoCAD. The current setup is a NVIDIA Quadrio FX 4500 with 2 AMD Opteron 254s and 4GB of RAM. I've pretty much completed my build, but I don't know if I should go for a Quadro, GTX1070 or GTX 1080(ti). What do you think? This is the build so far: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel - Core i7-6850K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor ($475.98 @ B&H) CPU Cooler: Scythe - Mugen 4 79.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($47.41 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: MSI - X99A WORKSTATION ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($336.84 @ B&H) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($118.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($127.99 @ Amazon) Case: Cooler Master - Silencio 652 ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon) Current local price is ~€1300,-
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i cant decide between the two i am an engineering student on a budget and i like the looks ad stile of the y700 but i wanted some opinions on wich would be a better buy which is a better build quality and will be more reliable for college
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Hey guys, Our custodial/maintenance department at work needs the ability to view AutoCAD files, with ideally some basic (or advanced, but that's just a bonus) editing abilities. This needs to be free. Anyone got any suggestions? Basically as long as we can view the AutoCAD "drawings" or whatever, that's the main objective. Doing basic editing would be a benefit. Doing advanced editing would be a bonus.
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Hello all! I am an upcoming college student and will be studying Computer Engineering next year. As such, I am in need of a good windows laptop that can run AutoCad Electrical with relative ease. Here are my priorities, in no particular order: -Powerful Needs to be able to perform well in AutoCad Electrical. -Lightweight Less than 4 lbs, please. -Good Battery At least 6 hours battery life, preferably more like 8. -Good Build Quality I know I won't get MacBook quality, but I want something sturdy. -Decent I/O As previously stated, I'm not getting a MacBook. At least 2 USB ports. -Touchscreen I'd like to interact naturally with my devices. Thanks in advance for any suggestions! Here is a link to AutoCad Electrical system requirements: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-electrical/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-AutoCAD-Electrical-2017.html
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Hey everyone, I'm currently a Landscape Architecture student with a few years left of undergrad and graduate school ahead of me. We use a wide range of programs from AutoCAD, Adobe Suite, Sketchup, Rhino, Lumion, Unity and Unreal Engine. The last two I'll be getting into this year with VR becoming a big part of our industry and being chosen to participate in a one week VR boot camp. I've been doing a lot of research in the past few months about these programs and what benefits them. From some programs favoring higher clock speeds, others favoring more cores, faster single thread performance, higher RAM speeds, and GPU's it's gotten a little confusing. I'll throw it out there I've never built a PC before but I feel I've gotten quite a good understanding. From understanding motherboard chipsets, vrms, nvme and m.2, etc. I've got a good understanding of everything that goes into a build. I guess the hardest part is picking the best hardware. I'm definitely open to any opinions you all have as I'm sure most of you have first hand experience with these programs how different hardware performs respectively. So please leave any recommendations down below. My goals for my build are: Budget CPU Cooler Motherboard RAM Storage GPU Case Power Supply Thanks for taking the time to read all of this! I'd love to hear any feed back or tips with the best hardware for these programs. Cheers
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I need help choosing a laptop to buy given that I'm a civil engineer but don't know what resources I should boost if mainly working with AutoCAD or REVIT. I need a laptop that gets the job done but won't carve a hole in my pocket, anyways: HELP! -
Hi, so my girlfriend is studying architecture. She always tell me that the computer she bought is to slow and take too long making renders. She use Sketchup, Vray for Sketchup, Autocad, Revit, photoshop and illustrator. The thing is that here budget is $1800 USD. I found this build in https://www.logicalincrements.com/articles/building-pc-3d-rendering-animation, but im not sure if is going to work well enough too justify the price. CPU: AMD R7 3700X Graphics Card: RTX 2070 Super Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite RAM: 32GB Dual-channel DDR4 Storage 1: 500GB Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD Storage 2: 4TB Toshiba HDD Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3 CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 4 Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Operating System: Windows 10
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Dear All, For Auto Cad, do i need to purchase a GT1030 or getting GT710 would be enough or should i just work with Integrated Graphics?
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So probably near the end of the year I will want to upgrade my laptop. It is still a great powerhouse, but I need something more color accurate and powerful for current gen games as well. So I'm honestly looked for suggestions on laptops that can do Color accurate work, good at gaming and is in a 17 in size. Plus a full-size SD card reader would be great too.
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Can I add a thumbnail to my CAD files in CATIA?
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Greetings! I have to create a Mini ITX workstation for CAD (Revit mostly) and have most of the build figured out however I'd like to hear your opinion/suggestions. The PC will be on 24/7 while real workload will happen for around 12h for 5 days a week (max load time per week). My choices were GTX 1660 Ti / RTX 2060 / RTX 2070. Price per performance wise RTX card seem to be better with RTX 2060 being most appealing, but I didn't succeed to find sufficient information to verify, how better each of those is against other one. Only fact is that AutoCAD/Revit apps hugely benefit from VRAM but yet to understand the real world difference for 2GB extra from RTX 2070. Thank you all a lot in advance! P.S. I've submitted original post on Reddit, there you can read the whole story. Sister posts: CPU question; Case/PSU question. -
Greetings! I have to create a Mini ITX workstation for CAD (Revit mostly) and have most of the build figured out however I'd like to hear your opinion/suggestions. The PC will be on 24/7 while real workload will happen for around 12h for 5 days a week (max load time per week). CASE My options: Coolermaster Elite 130 / Sharkoon Shark Zone C10 / Fractal Design Node 202. All of them have 120mm case fan included and below I summarized differences. Elite 130: additional USB ports in front; 80mm case fan. C10: Looks better for maintenance process; has dust mesh. Fractal: Best looks/slim design; 80mm case fan; forced with Fractal Design Integra SFX 450W PSU; dust mesh. That on case side. Fractal looks great and rises only 2 questions: ventilation & it's built-in PSU. Elite 130 has some bonuses, but comparing it to C10 I feel that it's not as polished, as Sharkoon case (dust mesh in particular). Questionable moment is airflow. PSU My options are: Corsair VS series 350-650W / Corsair TXm series 550-750W / Fractal Design Integra SFX 450W. I used different calculators and in most "equipped" build would run on around 505W with maximal load. However, some of them also show me that I'd be safe with 350W PSU. With that in mind I'd like some assistance from more experienced people on this calculation. CASE+PSU I'm personally looking at C10 + TXm 550W as of being safest option, while Node 202 + forced Integra SFX 450W kills it with design. Price is exactly the same for them. Thank you all a lot in advance! P.S. I've submitted original post on Reddit, there you can read the whole story. Sister posts: GPU question; CPU question.
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Greetings! UPDATE: Due to clarification in the thread, I will go with Asus Strix B360-I. CPU QUESTION SOLVED. I have to create a Mini ITX workstation for CAD (Revit mostly) and have most of the build figured out however I'd like to hear your opinion/suggestions. The PC will be on 24/7 while real workload will happen for around 12h for 5 days a week (max load time per week). Is there any reason to upgrade from i7-8700 to i7-8700K(+64EUR) or to i7-9700K(+92 EUR)? There won't be much rendering, therefore single core performance is most important. With that in mind, Turbo Boost is 4.6/4.7/4.9 Ghz respectively. For that price difference I don't see any real reason to pick more expensive CPU. Prove me wrong or correct Thank you all a lot in advance! P.S. I've submitted original post on Reddit, there you can read the whole story. Sister posts: GPU question; Case/PSU question.
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As a student of architecture i need to use following software: 3ds Max (2016), lumion 9, Revit (2017), Auto CAD (2019), Sketchup (2017), PS (cc 20117), & Ai (cc 2017) etc. i am from Bangladesh & my budget limit is 1200$ i want to build a PC to get Fast Render Output. Can any one suggest me to buy best PC for Rendering.?? Here is MY Custom built Computer quote's Your Suggestion can save my $$ & my Render Time. Thanks & Regards, /MMJ Masoud
