Drafting, detailing and typical buildings.
- Processor
- AMD 12 Core Processor
- Graphics
- Palit 16 GB Vram graphics card
- Memory
- 32GB High speed memory
- Form
- Tower, desk-side
Engineering Design
CAD, BIM and structural analysis
Fast single cores and enough memory for large models.
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ETABSStructural analysis and designRevitBuilding information modellingAutoCAD2D drafting and 3D modellingSOLIDWORKS3D CAD, simulation and rendering
Also common in this work: Tekla Structures.
Most important first
What this work needs
1
Clock speed on one core, ahead of core count
Modelling runs on one thread, so a faster core beats more cores.
2
Enough memory for the largest model you open
A model that outgrows memory spills to disk, and everything slows.
3
A fast drive for opening, saving and analysis files
Large models and analysis files open and save far faster on NVMe.
Where money gets wasted
Dozens of cores or a flagship card. Outside rendering, neither gets used.
Our picks
Machines for engineering design
Large BIM models, tall buildings and real-time visualisation.
- Processor
- AMD 16 Core Processor
- Graphics
- Palit 32 GB Vram graphics card
- Memory
- 64GB High speed memory
- Form
- Tower, desk-side
Certified-class graphics, ECC memory and the largest models.
- Processor
- AMD 24 Core Processor
- Graphics
- Nvidia 24 GB Vram graphics card
- Memory
- 128GB High speed memory
- Form
- Tower, desk-side
Worth knowing: The Studio machines use GeForce cards, which SOLIDWORKS does not certify.
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