Anti Aliasing questions

[Kartik Chopra]

Hello Everyone,

I have some very specific questions about anti aliasing.

I know that anti aliasing is very demanding on a graphics card, but I want to run it on a CAD software.

Does anyone know if integrated Intel graphics can do so.

If yes at what level (2x, 4x etc.).

Please keep in mind I do not want to run games or video editing, I am a mechanical engineer and only run CAD softwares (Which in some cases are more demanding....)

 

My Computer Specs (university laptop) :-

1. Intel i5 6200u
2. Intel HD 520 IG
3. 16 GB RAM
4. CAD softwares run from an m.2 SSD

[FloRolf]

Just enable it and see how it does? It really depends on your projects and on how many things have to be processed. 

 

I run my Catia with maximum settings (lol) but that's also on a (shitty) quadro and an quad core xeon. 

[W-L]

2 minutes ago, Kartik Chopra said:

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It varies really on what software your running since many such as solidworks are solely CPU based if you rendering or not using real view. I would recommend to step up to a quad core if your doing a lot of work related to CAD design. 

[Kartik Chopra]

21 minutes ago, W-L said:

It varies really on what software your running since many such as solidworks are solely CPU based if you rendering or not using real view. I would recommend to step up to a quad core if your doing a lot of work related to CAD design. 

I am precisely running PTC Creo and SOLIDWORKS, and may start CATIA

 

Also please tell me about FEA analysis software like Ansys

[W-L]

Not sure about FEA softwares since I've never ran them but for CAD such as solidworks and CATIA they are heavily CPU based, just having a basic card or using dedicated graphics usually is alright for basic modeling work as long as it keeps up. The only time that graphics really plays a role is if your say using real view which is basically live generated graphics but that requires a workstations graphics in the first place. 

[Potato*Salad]

I think you will just need sufficient memory for CAD.

[Kartik Chopra]

3 minutes ago, Potato*Salad said:

I think you will just need sufficient memory for CAD.

Is 16 GB sufficient?

[Kartik Chopra]

9 minutes ago, W-L said:

Not sure about FEA softwares since I've never ran them but for CAD such as solidworks and CATIA they are heavily CPU based, just having a basic card or using dedicated graphics usually is alright for basic modeling work as long as it keeps up. The only time that graphics really plays a role is if your say using real view which is basically live generated graphics but that requires a workstations graphics in the first place. 

OK, 

One final doubt

When you say heavily CPU dependent, I rarely see 100% CPU usage, only during rendering something like a knurled pattern or a helical sweep with pitch 0.5

 

Do I really need a quad core CPU now ?

[W-L]

1 minute ago, Kartik Chopra said:

OK, 

One final doubt

When you say heavily CPU dependent, I rarely see 100% CPU usage, only during rendering something like a knurled pattern or a helical sweep with pitch 0.5

 

Do I really need a quad core CPU now ?

That's only if you do rendering, for basic modeling you won't have a problem. Only thing that might be a little sluggish is the integrated graphics if you have highly complex 3D assemblies.