Cadworker hardware?

[sdrzewiczewski]

We are looking to upgrade our cad worker(s). Currently we have one physical box for a Pro/E worker and one for a Solidworks worker. The workers are desktops that are running XP 64bit. Our assemblies are growing in size and are starting to push the boundaries of these old machines.

Does anybody have their cad workes on a server? Are they virtualized? Did they meet the graphics requirements?

If you have multi-cad, does each worker have it's own cad worker machine? (Right now i haven't been able to find a way to send SW to one queue and Pro/E to a different queue *9.1 M040)

Thanks,

Steve D.

This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

[SteveVinyard]

Hi Stephen, you have a lot of flexibility with CAD workers but stability is something that is sacrificed when you get outside the normal bounds. We've found better success with the following:


1- High performance CAD workstations - non-virtualized and dedicated

2- A Workstation for each type

3- Ample Resources

[cid:image001.gif@01CC00D9.48420050]

Steve Vinyard
Application Engineer

[cc-2]

Hello

we only have ProE files in our database. For our CAD worker we have opted for a VMWare server and with WinXP SP3 64bits, not the server version of XP. We have not yet experience stability issues. We are nonetheless rebuilding it to have a second CAD worker on the same machine. We will test next week. I should be able to give you some update on performance improvement by the end of the next week if you want to contact me. Also we will publish to PLT rather than PDF for the 2D drawings

Our models rarely exceed 5 mega.