Saturday, March 01, 2008
Utilize your Multi-Core Processor in AutoCAD
TheCADGeek: "It’s no secret, the modern-day processor race isn’t measured so much on how fast the processor is, but rather how many cores you have. First we saw the Core Duo (2 cores) processors, then the Core 2 Duo’s (4 cores). While your inner-geek can certainly brag about the number of cores inside your machine, what about actually using them for some real processing?"
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I wish I knew about this before. It took me 11 minutes to render out that picture of my chain. This is going into my standard template so I'm using all four cores to the max. Good buy lag.
I don't know. It seems this is a good way to blast through things but I don't know if I want to shove all that core speed into CAD. It seems like it would be faster but somehow detrimental to my already bogged down computer. Not to mention that if I did this in the cluster it would be serious bad news bears.
I have not done any rendering in autocad yet, but when i do, it will be good to know that there are some easy options for when i want to render my projects. I will save time when I change these options right now!
I wish I could have been using this in class. I know boevers said on the first day that you will have a hard time catching the computer thinking, but mine lags all the time.
11 minutes? my 3D render took 2.5 hours last semester.
this sysvar only affects regen and redraw (i think , haven't tried it yet) so the overall drawing speed will be faster. if autocad is sitting idle, then it shouldn't use any more processor than normal.
but it messes up draw order...:(
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