Equipment for AutoCAD 13 3D

[albertoqqq1]

Hello first of all to greet you.
I am new to the forum and although I have been reading you for a long time I have always been able to solve my doubts with answers to other colleagues.
Now I want to buy a PC to work with autocad 13 3d.
What characteristics do you recommend? The budget would be around 1000 €, I only need
the case I already have 2 monitors of 24" and the rest of the peripherals.

Thank you.

[Fassou]

Look at this post for guidance

Salu2! And welcome to the forum

[whoololon]

First of all, welcome to the forum.
Regarding the configuration, it depends on the complexity of the project and how you organize it, that is, it is not the same as a piece of furniture project as the structure of a building or the scheme of a turbine. Likewise, the way to manage the project, whether all elements of a structure are incorporated in hundreds of layers of a single file or if they are distributed in a few dozen in several files.
Normally, users of cad programs work(mos) with three 2D views and one in wireframe, using rendering only occasionally, so the speed to process it is not crucial. In my opinion, any average configuration of today will allow you to work with ease.
Let's calculate a quad core of 3 Ghz, Intel if possible (i5-3350P or i5-3450), 8 GB of RAM, a not too flashy graphics card, a GTX650 or a GTX760 at most, on a GA-Z68AP-D3 motherboard (personally because I think Gigabyte is the most robust).
Now the storage, and I warn that here comes a lot of personal preferences. As the main disk, a Sandisk 128GB where the OS and the different programs and applications will be installed, as a daily disk, a Seagate 500GB SATA3 6Gb/s NCQ where we will establish the swap file, we will store the necessary drivers and applications after an eventual formatting, and the nonsense that mysteriously ends up filling hard drives over the months, and as a warehouse for our data, a RAID 1 with two Seagate ST31000524AS, where we will put what we will not want to lose in any way. As I say, it is a matter of needs and tastes.;D

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[albertoqqq1]

Thanks Fassou for the link, but I had already seen it before I wrote the post.
Also, since it's a bit old and hardware changes so fast, I decided to ask.

[albertoqqq1]

Thanks for your explanation whoololon you are very kind, I was thinking something like that to be honest, but I wanted to put an I7 in it and what do you think about the Quadro cards AutoCAD with Quadro graphics cards | NVIDIA here there are two and to be honest the 600 is for less than 200 euros how do you see it?

[whoololon]

As I explained before, unless you need to work with projects of a hundred thousand layers per file, rendering every now and then, with the equipment above you should be able to have more than enough.
From there, the limit only depends on your budget.

[vacante]

Hello
I work with autocad + 3Ds with many layers and models of considerable complexity, I will tell you about my experience

To work in 2D you don't need a Quadro with good conventional graphics, a conventional graphics card is enough.
The renders are usually calculated by the processor, so you don't need a Quadro for this part. What you need to calculate the renders is a powerful processor with as many cores as possible.

The Quadro graphics card is good for two things:
For the first one I don't think you will use it unless you are very very professional, calculating part of the renders with the new RT version of Vray that works in real time and bla, bla, bla, to work with this you need a very high-end Quadro or a Tesla (a lot of money)

For the second thing that the Quadro is good for you will use it and you will get a lot out of it, it is good for visualizing in real time the model with textures, shadows, lights,… while you are working. This is also achieved with any other graphics card but there is no comparison in how agile the model moves and the quality of textures that a Quadro achieves.

I have the Quadro 2000, the 600 is not bad but it might be a bit short.

Keep in mind that a Quadro with characteristics (type of memory, amount of memory and processing speed) much worse on paper than a conventional graphics card of the type (GTX760), work much better in reality in 3ds Max, 3D in Autocad and similar programs,
but don't ask it to perform well with the latest game because the GTX will beat it and humiliate it.

I went to the Autodesk page where they recommend Graphics that have specific drivers for each program: Autodesk - Certified Hardware - Find Recommended Hardware