AutoCAD Inventor :: Workstation With Faster Renders
Apr 1, 2012
After shelling out a pretty penny for Inventor 2012, my boss set me up with a less-than-adequate off-the-shelf PC. I don't need faster visualizations as I'm not dealing with super complex assemblies, maybe 100-200 parts. I also don't care about ray-tracing while modeling. My problem is it took 24 hours to render a 65 second animation (about 1000 frames).
my boss is going to allow me to build a new, more inventor optimized workstation. I am using studio to do fairly complex animations. Fades, camera changes, constraint animations, all rendered with higher quality. I need a computer that will render quickly, and possibly higher quality if available.
I don't fully understand the whole "Direct X vs OpenGL" stuff. What should I spend my money on, knowing that rendering, not modeling is where I need improvement. I am thinking AMD system to save $$. Also, what to look for, fast bus, cache, etc. Just remember, I need faster RENDERING in STUDIO ANIMATIONS.
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Dec 10, 2013
Our company is planning to buy new workstations Dell Precision T1700 [URL] and we have question about compatibility with Inventor 2009: Will there be issues with drivers or directx etc. that don´t match with Inventor 2009 ?
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Jul 23, 2013
How I can make these trails fade faster?
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Apr 24, 2013
What are the best ways for speeding up iLogic routines? Can Inventor updating or re-calculation be suppressed while the iLogic code is running? Does ScreenUpdating = False accomplish this?
What other tips do users have for improving their iLogic code efficiency and speed?
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Feb 20, 2012
I have these cable segments in my models. The problem I have is that when I render them or zoom out all of the work points and segment points become visible. It's only when zoomed in that they disappear.Look at the attached images for an example.I would really like my rendered videos to not have bright yellow spots.
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Jun 12, 2012
I'm trying to recreate a bunch of IV-Studio settings to match a bunch of renders made by previous staff that did not leave behind the assembly files they used to make them in the first place.
I've ran into a problem with some parts displaying incorrectly. (they display incorrectly in the render/in the studio environment/ in the assembly/ and when in the part file) I've played with material and appearance styles but they have no effect, I've also tried quality/performance/compatibility hardware modes.
We have 5 or 6 parts that share the ridge pattern that is causing problems and they are affected in the same way.I'm running XP(32), IV2012-sp2, fx1800 with 6.14.0012.6570 drivers.
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Jan 10, 2012
My boss just came in and wants to get a new workstation with Windows 7 64bit on it. We are, however, out of copies of AutoCAD 2007 to install but have many 2006 copies. Will 2006 run under Win7? If so, how reliably? Or should I suggest getting 2012?
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Jan 10, 2012
I have tried to load dbconnect on several 64 bit workstations usinf "dbc" and "dbconnect". In all cases AutoCAD Map 3d stops working. Generally, the workstation just spins and you have to end the program with task manager, but I do have on Win 7 machine that crashes all the way out. There is never an AutoCAD error message or opportunity to report the issue to Autodesk.
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May 8, 2012
I have created a workstation to be used by my cad department, but not able to get it to work. How do I make a multi-user workstation?
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Oct 4, 2012
One of my co-workers is having trouble with pdfs. He can bring them into the drawing, but they show up as dots, and he cannot see anything else.
When I open the same file, the pdf is there plain as day.
Already re-installed CAD.
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Jan 6, 2012
I have the following path declared for a R2007 workstation:
(setq rr (strcat "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R17.0\ACAD-5001:409\Profiles\" (getvar 'CPROFILE)))
How can I extract this path without manually declaring it?
Something like:
(VL-Get-Registry-Path-Prefix (getvar 'CPROFILE))
Which will result in the following statement:
(setq rr (strcat (VL-Get-Registry-Path-Prefix (getvar 'CPROFILE)) (getvar 'CPROFILE)))
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Nov 12, 2013
I need to reinstall CS 5 on a new workstation. Where do I find this download file?
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Sep 28, 2011
1. is there a faster way or command to which lines are flying?coz i got this file from a collegue and i was wondering why is it that lines doesnt connide each other... so when i tilt the file into front elevation... i saw all the lines were not on the same elevation.. so what i did is to change the value of Z into zero....
2. does i press something... i used to select the object, pan and drag ( to select and add more on my selected objects.).now if i select the object and use the center of my mouse to drag... point were gone out... so i input first the command then select and drag..
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Jun 13, 2013
My new Dell U2713H is on its way, and I need a new video card to take advantage of it. I work mainly with Photoshop and Illustrator, with a little bit of Video and 3D. No games whatsoever.
How much video memory do I need? When I look at the Nvidia Quadro series, there's a big jump in price from entry-level to mid-level, but only the mid-level has 2GB. For desktop cards, even some of the lower-end ones have 2GB. Would the extra memory be good for working with image stacks and panorama stitching?
For the more expensive desktop cards, are you mostly paying for enhanced gaming capabilities, or would it be a general overall improvement in performance?
Most of the reviews I see for workstation cards are oriented towards people who do do a lot of 3D. Like I said, I don't do a lot, but I do some. Would something like a Quadro K600 give me a performance boost in Photoshop? Or might I be just as happy with a lower-mid-range desktop card?
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Mar 30, 2009
I am currently running a quad-care, 4 gigs, with a nvidia 8800gts 640mb graphics card machine and using photoshop cs4 extended with windows xp 32 bit os.
While photoshop cs4 is fairly fast and responsive, I would like to have it even quicker.
My question is, what would make this happen?
Naturally a faster processor (i7 intel) would assist in this, but I rather not go that route. I would rather go to a 64bit OS and add additional 4 gigs of ram (total of 8). What would your suggestions be?
Add the additional 4 gigs of ram and go to 64-bit xp? 64 bit vista?
Build a new machine with i7 quad cpus, 16 gigs of ram and 64 bit os?
Simply use what I got because there will not be much of an improvement?
I would like to have it run faster without a great deal of reworking the system. Clearly what I am running now is pretty darn fast even though it is a year old since I built it.
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Aug 12, 2012
I have a license for 2013 Ultimate Entertainment Suite. I'm wanting to set up batch rendering on a second workstation. Does this license allow for batch rendering on 2nd workstation while you still design on 1st workstation?
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Apr 23, 2013
I use Rhino to make pendant models but I find that Rhino's fillet function very slow and inefficient, so I'd like to know if Autodesk would be better at doing that.
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Sep 3, 2013
When viewing the model on screen it's exposed correctly, but whenever I try and render it out it's overexposed. I have included a screenshot of the rpref.
overexposed.jpgscreenshot.jpg
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Oct 13, 2011
I need to explode ~2000 PolyFace meshes in a drawing.Manually I can do the following:
> QSELECT - PolyFace Mesh - Select All
> Explode
I get a question if I want to "Disregard DrawingOrder for this operation due to the fact that it might take some time", by selecting "Yes" the process takes ~10 minutes (one explode).With an VBA automation I do the following:
> Create a selection set of all PolyFace meshes
> Explode each obj (2000 times) in the selection set with SendCommand (as .Explode does not work on polyface mesh objects)
I have waited hours for the same process (might be due to multiple explodes and/or screen updating taking place).I have always though automation is faster than manual work, but this proved me wrong.So to the questions:
1. How can I prevent screen updating in VBA (disregard draw order) during "long actions"
2. Is there a better way to explode a selection set than looping through each and every object calling explode (obj.handle)
For one drawing I can do it in 10 minutes, but I have 50 drawings with the need to explode this, having an automation run over night sounds great, but having it take 6x+ times longer for each drawing causes the night not to be long enough.
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Dec 11, 2012
I need to move projects and clips from an old system drive (restored from system crash, unbootable) to a new install on a new disk.
Is there a "best practice" for moving projects?
It looks like this
Disk1 (old)
/usr/discreet/clip/stonefs7/old projects
/usr/discreet/project/old projects
Disk2 (new)
/usr/discreet/clip/stonefs7/
/usr/discreet/project/
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Jun 27, 2012
Uhm, whenever I render I only get white outputs. I'm used to use Revit, and have forgot how to use autocad. But this project relies on making a couple of renders in Autocad.
How do I get useful outdoor as well as indoor renders?
Here's the .dwg
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Nov 8, 2012
I am quite new to 3D modeling & rendering. I did a simple 3d model of a standing unit, but once i clicked on render, only a black screen appeared.
I did try to put a point light and increase its intensity but the model can barely be seen. I also created a new camera and clicked render but to no avail.
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Jan 15, 2013
I have noticed that a file is xrefed much faster if the file has been opened at some point. (Wtih the file I tested with it was 45 sec vs 1,5 sec) This must mean that the file is cached and can very quickly opened later if it has been opened.
I have an application that xref other files as overlay xref's. This is very slow since the xrefed files haven't been opened. And it will be this slow every time i xref them since they are never opened. Is there a way I can cache the files manually or something like that?
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Jun 16, 2011
How I can get a visual of the actual sun to show on my renders so when I have a view I want to render it will actually show the sun and not just the light from it.
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Oct 31, 2012
We export our renders to be used in a GUI and for some reason the bottom of our renders since last week (to be fair we only have one user who exports - so only one user has this problem) have a solid black line on the bottom. Now this wouldn't be a horrible problem except we have to set a transparency color in our control software and since the background is not uniform it is VERY obvious when in our final software package. We also have to maintain a constant resolution or the control systems (what we use the renders in) will distort and be way off.
Here is a sample: [URL]....
This happens in both 2013 and 2012. Perhaps there are some lightning/render settings I can try changing on this users machine?
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Jul 19, 2012
Usually when I run a script. I am automating a process. When doing this, I want to perform other tasks on my computer. Problem beeing. When Autocad is running a script. It opens a file, runs some commands. Then when completed. It opens another file. It seems when it opens each file, it takes control of the cursor for 1 second. The cursor blips for a second.
i.e.
I run a script in ACAd. Minimize ACAd. Open a Word document. And start typing. When ACAD opens a new file. The cursor is pulled away from Word. So I have to click on Word with the mouse again. Then start typeing. Basically you can type a few charachters, before the cursor is pulled away from word or any other applications. And results in my computer work station useless for multitasking until the script is done. Makes Multitasking non existent. My current project I will be running many scripts, and printing many ACAd documents. Therfore I would like to run these tasks in the back ground, while performing other tasks in a new session of ACAD or other applications.
Windows 7 64bit os. ACAD 2011 64bit, network license
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Jun 22, 2007
I have an old computer Sempron 2600+ and 1Gb RAM. So my question is what I should to upgrade for more comfortable working in PS - buy a new CPU, or additional RAM?
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Mar 27, 2012
Im currently in my second year at architecture school and have recently been learning how to render and do simple animations on autodesk. Being a poor student and only having an existing home computer, how to update my system so I would be able to run some simple renders on my computer?
I have attached an image below of my system details. My computer doesnt have a graphics card and I know I need to get that sorted.
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Dec 29, 2008
improves performance more, more ram or faster processor?
I've got a Dell workstation 650, xeon processor 2.0GHZ.
2.5 GB Ram
XP Pro
CS
If I upgrade to 4GB Ram, will I see a big improvement? Or do I need to get a new computer with a faster processor plus 4GB or more of Ram.
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Sep 11, 2005
I'm seeking a way to "Save for Web" so the website i'm working on will load faster than it does now.
Does any one know which options I should mess with to save it so it loads faster?
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Jan 7, 2005
I'm duplicating layers one at a time. I have to duplicate the same layer for a total of 108 layers and this seems ridiculously time consuming. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to make a large number of duplications at one time?
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