#Autodesk recommended graphics cards install

3ds Max provides its users with amazing intuitive texturing and shading tools. It allows you to create and develop and modify high-quality designs. I don’t do large projects.Autodesk’s 3ds Max allows you to model and render in amazing 3D. But if you need more powerful machine, you need to use HP Z400, Z600 or Dell T5500. Great for AutoCAD, work fine for small and medium size projects. There are several steps that you need to do, so the wizard can recommend which workstations are the best for you.īelow are the entry level workstations that you can use for medium size projects. Dell has a wizard called Dell Precision Workstation Advisor. You can choose your industry and see which hardware are certified for your industry.ĭell has a different way to let you choose their hardware. The screenshot is showing HP certified workstations for Autodesk solutions. I found this page on Hewlett Packard website. I tried to search on certified workstations. In Inventor, you will not want to see the resources bar turns to red. Slow machines tend to freeze or hang when you work on large models. But if you work on large complex or high rise building, then you need a powerful machine to do it. If you only use it for 3-5 story building, you probably feel no difference. And how long the processes in Revit when we work with large and complex model. But I see how long Inventor take time to load. But compared to your cad application price, it certainly worth it to make sure it works! ATI FireGL V3600 These are sample of two graphic card that are recommended. You can choose to show only recommended hardware or also show certified graphic cards. But as far as I concern, most latest machine met the hardware requirements, except for graphic cards. See each CAD product help file or website page. It looks like processor and memory are not really critical issue.

The page provides certified graphic cards. See the list of certified hardware by Autodesk here. When I do some searches in Autodesk site, I found a link mentioning hardware that are certified by Autodesk. The first place I went is Autodesk website. I started to search what kind of hardware that are recommended for CAD applications, especially Autodesk applications which consume so much resources. Your CAD applications can be much more expensive than your machine! But if you are using those CAD applications for 3D modeling (AutoCAD verticals, Revit, Inventor, etc,) you may want to put more consideration on your hardware. Well, if we only use AutoCAD for drafting, we probably will see those problem less (or never). From simply seeing debris on monitor, very rough edges on 3D models (it is annoying, but we still can work), and the worse is I saw we can’t see object snap in Inventor! How can we work when it happened? So I start to take this seriously. If it works, why should I worry? But then I started to see problems on some machine (not mine, luckily). I have seen it on AutoCAD but nothing bad happened.

#Autodesk recommended graphics cards install

When I first install Revit Architecture 2011, I see warning message that some features may not be supported by my graphic card. I never really care about hardware specification before.