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Budget (including currency): $1000+ us Country: usa Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: revit Other details Currently working at company that is using citrix workspace. They moved the switch to virtual machines before their move to Revit. it is a little slow when using Revit and would like to give them some options to maybe moving back to Single user single machine. Looking to build a revit machine that can handle huge models, not worried about rendering just the workflow. the budget for this project is $1000us but would also like to see what the best of the best would be also and if it would be worth the differance. 3 monitors 4k not needed to be in build price. Thank you

I use Autodesk Revit all of the time at work. And if you have ever worked with Revit you are familiar with the project browser and the properties palettes (see attached). I do have two screens but I would like to add a third screen to the far left just for the properties palette. So the order (from left to right) would be first screen properties and project browser, second would be the main Revit program, and the third screen would have pdfs, excel calculators, etc. The only problem is that i need a screen that has a usable area of about 13.5" tall and 3" to 5" wide. This is a abnormal aspect ratio and i cannot find anything like it. Any help or products would be appreciated.

Budget (including currency): below 65000 rupees Country: India Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Revit, CAD software Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Building from scratch. I am trying to build a PC for my friend, he needs it for running CAD applications. I have selected the components but i need an opinions on the build. Here's the list, CPU: Ryzen 5 2600x MOBO: ASUS TUF B450-Plus RAM: 16 GB GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GT 710 2GB(GV-N710D3-2GL) PSU: Cooler Master MWE 550W,80+ White 230V A/UK Cable Power Supply Cabinet: Deepcool Matrexx 55 Mesh ADD-RGB 4F Middle Tower Computer Case (DP-ATX-MATREXX55-MESH-AR-4F) HDD: WD Blue 1TB SSD: Samsung EVO 860 250GB Monitor: Dell 21.5 inch I thought of looking at 3500 or 3500x but i heard that Revit depends on multi threading and I thought the more cores the better do I have gone for 2600x.(2600x costs more than 3500x as of now).

Budget (including currency): 2300 € Country: Europe (Italy) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Most of the AutoDesk software ( mainly REVIT, CAD etc...), Program for Rendering ( like Luminosity ), and general gaming ( would like to play in 2k ) Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Storage is no needed ( already have like 3 TB of ssd ), just need hardware for the pc ( no storage )

Budget (including currency): 1200 € (can be stretched if there is gonna be a substantial increase in performance/stability) Country: Slovenia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 3ds max (v-ray & ART renderers), Maya, Lumion, Revit, Autocad, Adobe suite Other details Has to work well with a 4K monitor Greetings to all. I am starting from fresh. The budget is for the pc only, no peripherals or monitor. It will be used exclusively for rendering and work. Would prefer an AMD based CPU, given they seem to be a lot more bang for the buck, although I did watch a LTT video explaining Intel systems are more stable? I would prefer something that is stable, and can cope with heavy loads for prolonged periods, instead of chasing 60sec better rendering time. Side question - are used Quadro cards worth the trouble?

Budget (including currency): £600 Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Autodesk Revit, Photoshop, Chrome tab warrior Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I managed to scrape together £600 (up from £300) for building a productivity desktop for a family member for her upcoming birthday. She currently has a HP Slimeline with a 5W TDP CPU. Obviously, with the whole human malware thing going on, its pretty hard to get parts. The PSU isn't ideal, but thats the best I could get for now, maybe as a place holder on this list. She will be carrying her 2TB HDD over. And yes she really wants a DVD drive. I'm not sure what case to choose. I think she'll like something 'light' and simple - minimalist sort of thing. At most a strip of RGB at the front maybe. I'd appreciate some suggestions. CPU Ryzen 3600 £119.99 RAM Patriot Viper 4 Blackout Series DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz Kit £60.96 MOBO Gigabyte B450M S2H £57.98 GX ASUS Radeon RX 580 AREZ 8GB DUAL OC £169.97 PSU Aerocool Aero Bronze 650W PSU £54.98 Optical Asus DVD Rewriter £17.97 Case ?? ?? WiFi Ubit AC 1200Mbps Bluetooth WiFi Card £21.95 Storage Crucial MX500 500GB SSD £59.66 £563.46

Hey guys, I from the UK and I want to buy a new laptop, I will be using my laptop to use cad, revit, staad, rhino and other programs and I would like to game on my laptop, I will be using the laptop alot everyday and I would like to keep the laptop for 5 years at least and handle the heat and have a good lifespan, good battery life and good ventilation . I have a budget of 1600 pounds. I was interested in xps 15 9560 and the alienware 13 r3. If you have other laptops to recommended I am happy to hear from you.

Hello guys!, I thank you in advance for the help. In my office we are looking to buy new computers for 4 architects that use and will use the following softwares: Autodesk Revit 2017 Autdesk Autocad 2017 Autodesk Naviswork 2017 Autodesk 3DsMax 2017 Autodesk 3D Civil Adobe Photoshop CS6 Adobe Illustrator CS6 Adobe Indesign CS6 Lumion 7 Artlantis 6 SIG For this functions, we use to works several 3D models of more than 40.000 m2 that could be easily 4-10 gb of 1 single file and more than 25 files linked to it. I have this draft of what we should buy in order to work in a nice workflow(since we work with a server) GPU:Intel XEON (16 cores - 32 threats - 45 MB Caché)Video Card:Nvidia Quadro M6000Ram:64 GB de RAM Storage:SSD 512 GBDisplays:2 ASUS Display of 21' So, here is the questions about what I need. Should we use Intel XEON or a good i7 with overclock over 4.0? Should we use a Nvidia Quadro(since Quadro are officials for Revit) or should I go for unofficial Titan? Thanks in Advance.

I am an architectural drafting student and am making a mansion on revit for my final project. While using the search tool in revit, I downloaded an armoire. If I place the armoire, there is a grey box around it, but the armoire is inside the box. I can change the material of the armoire but the grey box persists. As you can see in the picture, the armoire is in the box.

I am using Revit 2015 and was wondering how you can quoin a corner. I asked my teacher and he had no idea. I was looking online and they say to make a family but I have no idea how to do that. Thanks for your help!

Hello everyone, I am an architect who needs to use Autodesk Revit at work. My workstations at work are usually with those Quadro workstation graphics cards. From my experience, the main obstacle in adopting BIM, which is a very information heavy 3d architectural software, is the hardware. My office gave me a dell workstation laptop the one that looks like xps 15 but has a Quadro graphics card in it. However, since I went for the thinner form factor, that laptop wasn't powerful enough to work on large scale BIM models. Now I would like to have my home PC be able to run Autodesk Revit very smoothly preferably even for large projects. However, I do not want to use a Quadro graphics card as I feel they are very expensive. I also read somewhere that graphics cards are not the most important components to run Autodesk Revit. I read that SSD's and even fast cpu's are quite important, which was quite surprising for me. I always thought that the graphics card was the most important component for CAD and 3d softwares. I would like to ask you guys to propose builds which could handle architectural revit models quite well. Which components should I emphasize on. As I mentioned, I would like to stick to consumer components unless it is absolutely necessary to go for workstation graphics card and xeon CPU's and provided the price is not too high. My budget is around 1400-1500 USD. Is it possible?

Hi everyone, I'm looking for an affordable yet powerful laptop for an architect/home designer for him to use for work. - the budget is 1,000$~1,500$ - gonna use software like Revit, SketchUp, 3D Studio Max , ARC+9 etc. - SSD is a must - well built and powerful laptop(16GB, GTX 1060~1070, i7) thank you for your help

Being a Mac guy (helping out a friend) and venturing into the water of Windows machines I am leery of buying a prebuilt machine. That being said, I am not sure the work load requires going through the trouble of building from scratch. AutoDesk says the system requirements for CAD & Revit are basically, "Highest affordable CPU speed rating recommended" and the RAM needs to be no less than 4GB. The video card is more specific. They only list 5 cards that are "Certified" to work with this version of Revit. AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 Radeon Pro WX 4100 Radeon Pro WX 5100 Radeon Pro WX 7100 Beyond that, the standard stuff would be needed, 250GB SSD, maybe a 1TB second drive. Any ideas on a prebuilt machine with one of those video cards? Or a build list to make one? Budget for either must be at or below $1300

Greetings All, I am an architecture student who realized that my current laptop, a Gigabyte P35k-CF1, which has served me well for the past 3 years, is now a limiting factor in my productivity, so its time for an upgrade. My workload involves 3D modeling, 3D rendering, 2D graphics, occasional video editing and uses the following software: Autodesk Revit Autodesk AutoCad Adobe Phototshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Premire Adobe Sketchup Lumion I am also planing to start using Rhino and VRay this fall and possibly ArcGIS in the future. My priorities/objectives with this system: 1. Functionality - If it doesn't increase performance in at least one of the software programs listed above, or doesn't improve multitasking performance (something I often do), then it probably isn't worth it to me. I generally don't have time to play games, so please don't cite improved gaming performance as a reason for selecting a particular component (but on the rare occasion that I do get to play a game, it will probably be Fallout 4, Civ V or VI, Rocket League or Elder Scrolls 6 if it ever comes out - all games that should be run just fine on high settings at 1920x1200 with the hardware required for my workload.) 2. Reliability - I really can't afford to be troubleshooting my system when I have a deadline thats approaching. If I overclock, it will only be a little so I don't risk instability issues. 3. Upgradability/"Future proofness" - I have two years left in undergrad and am likely to spend two more years in graduate school for Urban Planning so I would like this system to last me that long for intensive work. 4. Silence - My current laptop would ramp up the fans to obnoxious levels whenever I was rendering, using Revit for a while, or playing games and there is not much I can do about it, so that's something I want to change when I have a desktop. With those criteria in mind, this is the part list I have selected: Architecture Student Build CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 - A somewhat controversial choice, but it is what I believe to be the best compromise between single and multi-threaded work loads as well as price/performance ratio CPU Cooler: BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3 - I've had my eye on this cooler for almost as long as I've been interested in PC Hardware or watching Linus Tech Tips (in fact, this build, is my adaptation of the $2000 Silent Workstation Build Linus did four years ago!) Although it may not outperform all AIO liquid coolers or beefy heatsinks, but it looks the best to me, and performs well enough to do overclocking if I ever want to and looks awesome. (I do know that I will have to request an AM4 bracket from BeQuiet) Case: Fractal Design Mini C (w/window) - Again, I have loved Fractal Design Cases since first seeing one, then they released an mATX case, and I feel like it is the perfect size to not have a lot of wasted space, but still have lots of juicy airflow. The window may be contradictory to the objective of silence, but if I'm going to spend this much on a PC, I want to be able to see the hardware Motherboard: ASUS B350 A/CSM AM4 - My least confident selection. Its mATX and AM4 and ASUS, so it will work, but I don't know if its the best option so suggestions are certainly welcome RAM: 32GB 2400 DDR4 Corsair Vengence LPX - Adobe products eat about as much RAM as you give them, so the more the better; also I do a lot of multitasking so extra RAM helps out there too. The 2x16 configuration will allow me to expand to 64GB if need be in the future Video Card: 6GB GTX 1060 - Again, another debatable decision; I definitely don't think that any Quadro I could afford (even used) is better than a GeForce series card in this price range ($300-$350). Lumion does use the GPU to render and VRay has a GPU render option, but I don't know if it's wise to spend more money on the GPU when I can render using an 8 core CPU. Storage: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD and 2TB WD Black HDD - Pretty mundane and balanced storage solution PSU: Seasonic G 550W - Semi-modular, 80+ Gold efficiency, and highly rated by Jonny Guru Peripherals: I already have a Logitech G602 mouse (which I love), a Dell U2415h 1920x1200 IPS monitor (which I like so much that I want a second one and a dual monitor arm, but thats not quite in my budget at the moment), and a K800 Logitech keyboard. Budget: $1500 USD I plan to place my order within two weeks so that I can have it assembled, tested, and set up as well have time to RMA any broken parts if necessary before I go back to school. My country of residence is the United States and my preferred retailers are Newegg and Amazon, but am open to other retailers or Ebay if the price is lower. If you've made it this far, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to read this post and greatly appreciate any advice or comments that you have to offer EDIT: Im also looking for suggestions for a wifi adapter (I will used a wired connection most of the time, but there will be times when thats not an option). And does anyone know when "Back to School" or end of summer sales start at Newegg or other retailers? I know they currently have Early back to School and the usual daily deals, but I'm looking for the optimal time to buy. UPDATE 08-13-17: I have purchased all the parts except for the processor, extra fan, and wifi adapter (but I will be doing that very soon) and the other parts should be arriving this week with the exception of the AM4 bracket from BeQuiet which I was told would take 10-14 days! Unfortunately, even if all my other parts arrive before the bracket, I won't be able to test anything because I don't have a CPU cooler and all of the "X" series of Ryzen chips don't come with one. On the upside, I got 2666mhz RAM for the same price as I had expected to get 2400mhz, a free copy of Rocket League with the 1060 Strix, and other sales so that's great! I will update again once all the parts come in.

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

Hi there! I need advice choosing a laptop, it's going to be used for architecture purposes, it needs to run softwares like Revit and other cad softwares, adobe softwares for editing, Lumion for architectural animation and some casual gaming. my budget is 1500$ max 1600$ Doesn't matter the weight Most of the time it's gonna be plugged Up to 32Gb RAM upgradable 1070 Gtx, if possible within the budget I can get it from USA in case you know any better price to buy it These links below are from my country Dominican Republic - Some links with the laptops i have in mind - https://puntolaptop.com/detail.php?product_id=812 https://puntolaptop.com/detail.php?product_id=783 https://puntolaptop.com/detail.php?product_id=839 https://puntolaptop.com/detail.php?product_id=834

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.

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.

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

PC Components Case... I bought a Corsair Air740 because I was told going forward heat will become more of an issue and wanted to future proof with a case that could accommodate that. Board.... ASUS Crosshair VI Extreme Socket AM4/X370/DDR4/S-ATA 600/E-ATX Motherboard A friend suggested if I had the space in the case to get a bigger board, not fully sure what that means though. Will it be more future proof in terms of ram capacity and features? Memory... 2 x 8Gb Corsair vengance LPX DDR4 3000 hz Storage... Crucial 1tb ssd (already owned) Graphics... ASUS ROG-STRIX-RX580-T8G-GAM 8 GB Radeon RX 580 TOP Edition GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card This is the least sure I am in regards performance. It seems a mine field that mainly addresses gaming but I saw Linus imply workstations rely on CPUs more in vray rendering (bottleneck episode) Chip... Ryzen 2600x with the stock cooler. (Wraith spere I think). I don't anticipate over clocking but it might be a laugh if it is an option. Should I hold off for a 3600x?, What is the resale value of chips Should I want to upgrade? Power... Corsair CP-9020102-UK CX550M 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Po Wer Supply Unit Its 80+, I assume this means no dying in fires. Suggested supplementary info... 1. Budget & Location... My budget is fluid but approx €1000 for the remaining parts (unless there are serious issues raised) I am in Ireland. Will be buying off of Amazon.co.uk prime. 2. Aim... Work (Revit, AutoCAD, photoshop, lumion video and still image rendering, maybe some after-effects if it's able) Strategy Games, videos. Essentially I want a pc that I can ask to render a 5 minute ray trace video of a virtual model and don't mind leaving it for 10 or 20 hours just not 3 days. It's not meant as a primary work computer but it should not wilt if I take some work home. 3. Monitors... Two monitors (Acer R271bmid 27 Inch FHD Monitor, Black (IPS Panel, 4 ms, ZeroFrame, HDMI, DVI). Which I already own. Don't need them over 1080. (The 4k is for the office and client screens.) 4. Peripherals... I will get a grey market outside US Windows key. Keyboard and mouse may get upgraded later but the initial buy-in should go inside the case. 5. Why are you upgrading?... My laptop does not meet requirements. Apologies for the long email but there is very little info out there for architects other than buy the top of the range everything. I appreciate any advice or experience that can be offered.

After building a Athlon 200ge based system for my parent's business I really got salty on how with cheap branded parts are now and now inspired to upgrade current pc and fully join the Ryzen hype train. I'm aiming for as getting the most out of my budget. I use Fusion 360, Revit and Autocad on a near daily basis (I'm still a student so not dealing with hundreds of assemblies or anything bigger than a 4 storey house), with the occasional use of Blender and After effects here and there. Don't game that much anymore just TW3 once in a while, but my sister plays Civ V on my pc religiously. (sometime when I watch her near the endgame of a match loading for the ai's turns takes +2 minutes lol) I saved up around 15000php ~ 285usd. I've landed on 2 options: Ryzen 5 2400g (@8,00php ~ 167usd) and the Ryzen 5 2600 (@11,250php ~ 213usd) (also maybe the 2200g; performance is not that great from what I'm seeing, but that price.) I've seen benchmarks of my options but no idea how it would translate to day to day use. To be honest my only real want from the upgrade is to not crash Fusion 360 after trying to move a joint with contact sets enabled. I barely have enough for just a 2600 and a A320 mobo, is getting a overclockable chipset from the get-go worth it? (never done overclocking before. does OCing make a difference on my workloads anyway?) And about ram size I hear going with a fast dual channel kits are optimal with the APUs, though I can only really afford a single stick of 4gb ddr4 when choosing the 2600 lol. My current pc is an 3rd gen i3 with a Gtx 750ti, 16gb and ram 500w Huntkey Psu. While reusing my GPU would be optimal, I would sell everything but the Hdd/Ssd if I have to. Thanks for reading!

Hey all, I'm currently running a workstation from lenovo, Thinkstation P300. Inside I have a quadro k620, and it is not working well for rendering anymore. The company i work for uses Enscape for rendering (recommends a gtx 1050 or greater) and Revit for modelling/drafting. I may just build a whole new computer if that is the most cost effective. The case is narrow, so that limits just swapping out the GPU, so a new case for sure, and a new gpu would be great. I don't need a new cpu or motherboard, peripherals, or monitors. (provided proprietary motherboards/cpus can be used in the new build.) storage is not an issue. PSU would probably have to be upgraded. Thanks for the help in advance,