Autodesk Inventor experts

[JuztBe]

Hello, is there are any hardware related experts for this particular products? 

We are planning to buy new PC/s for it, and there are three type of people curently
*Buy the best we can

*Cheap out as much as possible

*Test all the things and find compromise

 

I can't really test everything due to lack of hardware (first we'd have to buy things to test it), and it might not represent real life workloads and scenarios anyway.

 

And testing stuff isn't as straightforward. For example doing rendering GPU is not being used, and only 50% of RAM is being used with 16GB RAM. Meanwhile with 8GB it howers around 75%. Question is if 32GB is going to be of any use.

 

Info from Autodesk forums/ support tends to contradict itself from time to time.

[vanished]

Luckily the people at Puget systems do all this kind of testing for you so they can recommend people the best builds, and then they give away the info on their website as well.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Autodesk-Inventor-173/Hardware-Recommendations

 

For most products, they offer benchmarks in chart form comparing different products, but that only works for "objective" tasks, like rendering a video that has a set duration they can just time.  Designing a part in Inventor isn't a set-size task like that - it's just about how good the experience is.  So, you'll have to read what they've got there and decide for yourself since no one can tell you what level of responsiveness you need.

 

The only thing I'd add is that if budget is a concern and you're doing this on your own (not going to be contacting Autodesk support ever), I don't think the Quadro is necessary.  People run this on consumer cards all the time with no issues.

[homeap5]

Autodesk products are different - there is AutoCAD and Maya - two different software with different requirements.

And there is also problem of configuring programs - people mostly don't do it. For example - Photoshop has option where you can set how many memory you want to use. So, memory usage depends on many factor, even on settings in some cases.

 

You have laptop already, right? And some desktop. I see it in your signature. So test on them and you'll know if it's enough "power" for you or not.

[JuztBe]

3 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

Autodesk products are different - there is AutoCAD and Maya - two different software with different requirements.

And there is also problem of configuring programs - people mostly don't do it. For example - Photoshop has option where you can set how many memory you want to use. So, memory usage depends on many factor, even on settings in some cases.

 

You have laptop already, right? And some desktop. I see it in your signature. So test on them and you'll know if it's enough "power" for you or not.

It's not for me. Current PCs that are in use is too low spec. From th gen i3's to 7th gen i5's with 8gb of ram and random gpus. 

[homeap5]

1 hour ago, JuztBe said:

It's not for me. Current PCs that are in use is too low spec. From th gen i3's to 7th gen i5's with 8gb of ram and random gpus. 

But it shows you exactly what you need - you can download demo of every Autodesk product and install it on worst computer you have. Then you'll see what do you need.

 

Personally I would buy some i5 like i5 8400 or even i3 8100 if it's for AutoCAD and 16 GB of RAM. And think of buing something more like GPU later.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rBcCJzsKz4

 

[Hugs12343]

Inventor is a lot better with a higher core cpu. Especially with complex models. You don't need a really high end GPU. A 1050ti would be more than enough.