What gain can you expect by changing the CAD workstation

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Hello

To generate assemblies of several thousand components on Solidworks (automated assembly machines),

I have been using an HP Z240 workstation since 2016 (equipped since 2019 with a P4000 graphics card)

What type of workstation would be the most efficient for this type of use in 2021?

What gain can I expect (Speed of calculation, reduction of crashes...)

 

Philippe

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Hello
You don't tell us the processor and RAM, the version of SW, whether you work locally or in a network with or without PDM.
These parameters also have a significant influence.

 

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Hello @philippe.godec 

You can refer to Dassault's recommendations as a basis

https://www.solidworks.com/fr/support/system-requirements

We can add that for the large complexes, very big progress has been made on the 2019 but especially the 2021 and we can also hope for the 2022.

You shouldn't focus too much on the graphics card which is very little used if you look at its use.
There is a lot to be gained by taking into account all the recommendations of SW as well as those of our colleagues on this forum for the management of large complexes.

Kind regards

FORTHCOMING ! The management of large housing estates under SW in 12 volumes  ;-)
 

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Hello

Thank you for your answers

The processor is an Intel Xeon CPU E3-1270 v5 3.60CHz 4 Core

16 GB RAM

Our group imposes on us SW2018

We work in a network without PDM

 

Kind regards

 

 

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"Network without EPDM" is what we have too and it is obviously a source of slowdown as soon as there are several of us working on the same project.

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In fact, we work alone on separate projects (few file sharing problems)

Once the assembly is completely loaded, switching between windows is slow, BOM generation takes a long time...

I imagined that it came from the lack of power of the machine (processor, RAM, graphics card...)

 

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When I hear "large assembly"  and "CAD", CATIA comes to mind.

No luck...