Creating Closed Volume from Seed / Boundary Surface

[akelly]

I created a surface copy using the seed / boundary surface technique. I
want to solidify it, but it needs to be a closed volume. What's the
easiest way to "cap" the ends that were created by the edges of the
boundary surfaces?

Note: Creating fills, extrudes, revolves, seems a bit tedious.

Andrew Kelly, P.E. | Senior Engineer | Crane Aerospace & Electronics |
+1 440 326 5555 | F: +1 440 284 1090

[tcarrington]

My system admin asked:

"Any chance we could get away with the nVidia Quadro 2000 instead of the
4000? Let me know."



I don't want to "cheap out" on the tools I use daily. But do I really
need it? He thinks there is $400 difference between the 2000 & 4000.
Thanks.





--Tom Carrington--
Rexair LLC
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[BenLoosli]

A lot will depend on what you do with WF.
If you only make boxes and tubes and a drawing, the 2000 will be more than adequate.
If you do complex surface shapes and assemblies of 10K+ components, the 4000 may not be enough.

Our new Dell R5800 with FX100 head running win7-64 has a 5000 in it, very nice machine.


Thank you,

Ben H. Loosli
USEC, INC.

[bgruman]

I guess it all depends on what your doing with it, but for me, I just need
to look at the specs... (see attached)
More Cuda Cores, twice the memory and bandwidth...
What's $400 compared to 3-5 years of user comfort and speed over the life of
a machine?

Just my .02
Bernie

Bernie Gruman
Owner / Designer / Builder
www.GrumanCreations.com


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Carrington, Tom
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> My system admin asked:****
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> “Any chance we could get away with the nVidia Quadro 2000 instead of the
> 4000? Let me know.”****
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> I don’t want to “cheap out” on the tools I use daily. But do I really need
> it? He thinks there is $400 difference between the 2000 & 4000. Thanks.***
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> --Tom Carrington--
> Rexair LLC
> 231-876-3932
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[davehaigh]

Perhaps Olaf's benchmarks will provide you better data to make your decision.

These are ranking for graphics
Searching for: Quadro 2000 Sub-total:Graphics
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Score (secs)

Make

Model

Processor

Speed

Graphics

RAM

OS

Version

Build




71

958/2613

Dell [cid:image002.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

T3500

Xeon W3530

2.80GHz

NVIDIA QUADRO 2000 8.17.12.6766

8.00 GB

Windows 7 Enterprise Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600

Wildfire 4.0

M160

102

1039/2854

Dell [cid:image004.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

Precision T7500

8 Core Intel(R) Xenon(R) E5630

2.53 GHz

NVIDIA Quadro 2000

24 Gb

Windows 7 64bit

Wildfire 4.0

M180

114

1081/3138

Dell [cid:image004.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

Precision T3500

Dual Core

2.53/GHz

NVIDIA Quadro 2000 1GB

6GB DDR3 ECC SDRAM

XP 64 v5.2.3790

Wildfire 4.0

m160 x64




Searching for: Quadro 4000 Sub-total:Graphics
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Make

Model

Processor

Speed

Graphics

RAM

OS

Version

Build

67

939/2887

Dell

T3500

Intel Xeon X5660 1366LGA

2.8Ghz

Quadro series 4000 266.45

6Gb

Windows Seven 64Bits

Wildfire 3.0

M220 X64

70

952/2682

Dell

T3500

Intel Xeon E5630

2.53GHz

NVIDIA Quadro 4000 dv:259.93

12 GB

Win XP Pro x64 SP2

Wildfire 4.0

M110

172

1447/4419

Sun Microsystems [cid:image002.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

Ultra 40

2 Dual Core AMD Opteron

2.41 Ghz

Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI

8GB

Win XP Pro x64 Edition

Wildfire 2.0

M160

194

1682/5692

HP [cid:image004.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

XW8200

Xeon

3.20GHz

NVIDIA Quadro FX3450/4000SDI Ver. 5.41.02.50.05

8GB

XP Pro 64 Bit

Wildfire 3.0

M110

195

1798/5848

Dell

Precision PWS 690

INTEL XEON

3.20GHZ

NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3450/4000 SDI BIOS 5.41.02.50.05

16GB

XP 64 V2003 SP1

Wildfire 2.0

64BIT M180

196

1798/5991

Dell

pws690

intel xeon

3.2Ghz

nvidia quadro fx 3450/4000 sdi

16gb

64 bit XP professional SP1

Wildfire 2.0

m180 x64

198

1875/4932

HP

xw6400

Intel Xeon 5130

2.0 GHz

Nvidia Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI

8 GB

Windows 7 64 bit

Wildfire 4.0

M140 64 bit


These are the CPU sub scores
Searching for: Quadro 2000 Sub-total:CPU
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71

1800/2854

Dell [cid:image004.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

Precision T7500

8 Core Intel(R) Xenon(R) E5630

2.53 GHz

NVIDIA Quadro 2000

24 Gb

Windows 7 64bit

Wildfire 4.0

M180

121

2049/3138

Dell [cid:image004.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

Precision T3500

Dual Core

2.53/GHz

NVIDIA Quadro 2000 1GB

6GB DDR3 ECC SDRAM

XP 64 v5.2.3790

Wildfire 4.0

m160 x64


207

20113151/3204

Lenovo [cid:image002.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

W520

i7-2720QM

2.2GHz

NVidia Quadro 2000M 268.71

8Gb

W7- X64 Professional

Wildfire 4.0

M130



Searching for: Quadro 4000 Sub-total:CPU
Rank

Score (secs)

Make

Model

Processor

Speed

Graphics

RAM

OS

Version

Build

56

1723/2682

Dell

T3500

Intel Xeon E5630

2.53GHz

NVIDIA Quadro 4000 dv:259.93

12 GB

Win XP Pro x64 SP2

Wildfire 4.0

M110

95

1908/2887

Dell

T3500

Intel Xeon X5660 1366LGA

2.8Ghz

Quadro series 4000 266.45

6Gb

Windows Seven 64Bits

Wildfire 3.0

M220 X64

179

2960/4419

Sun Microsystems [cid:image002.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

Ultra 40

2 Dual Core AMD Opteron

2.41 Ghz

Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI

8GB

Win XP Pro x64 Edition

Wildfire 2.0

M160

180

3038/4932

HP

xw6400

Intel Xeon 5130

2.0 GHz

Nvidia Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI

8 GB

Windows 7 64 bit

Wildfire 4.0

M140 64 bit

200

3997/5692

HP [cid:image004.png@01CC60CE.8DDD1EB0] <">http://www.proesite.com/OCUSB5/certified.htm>

XW8200

Xeon

3.20GHz

NVIDIA Quadro FX3450/4000SDI Ver. 5.41.02.50.05

8GB

XP Pro 64 Bit

Wildfire 3.0

M110

201

4034/5848

Dell

Precision PWS 690

INTEL XEON

3.20GHZ

NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3450/4000 SDI BIOS 5.41.02.50.05

16GB

XP 64 V2003 SP1

Wildfire 2.0

64BIT M180

202

4176/5991

Dell

pws690

intel xeon

3.2Ghz

nvidia quadro fx 3450/4000 sdi

16gb

64 bit XP professional SP1

Wildfire 2.0

m180 x64



David Haigh

[BrentDrysdale]

Hi Tom,
If I step to one side one the exact capabilities of each card I can ask the
question; does my employer value me?

What I mean by this is you are having a discussion over $400 when this is
probably less than 1% of your annual salary so how does your employer see
your value? Obviously no-one wants to pay over the odds for anything, and
CAD equipment is no exception, but long gone are the days when a new
workstation was around half your salary; this is now in the order of 5%, or
10% tops, so it makes no sense for companies to scrimp on what they provide
even if you only think of this in terms of motivation. Of course this does
not mean the sky is the limit and when I look at specifying new machines I
do keep an eye on the price and try to balance value against performance.

I suspect though that either card will serve your purpose unless you are an
outlier with massive assemblies as suggested by another reply.

All that said I am looking at Dell M6600 with the NVIDIA 3000M card as this
is already a giant step up on the FX1400M in our M6300 machines that are two
and a half years old 🙂


Regards, Brent Drysdale
Senior Mechanical Designer
Tait Radio Communications
New Zealand
DDI +64 3 358 1093
www.taitradio.com

[PAULKORENKIEWIC]

Yes, and lets put some numbers to this? IF we assume a $50,000/year salary, a workstation that cost $5000, and has a "life" of 2 years... That's 5000/(2*50000) = 5%.... NOW add in the building, benefits, support staff (accounting, HR, managers, sales...) AND consider that most likely you're on your workstation somewhere between 90-100% of the time; and that 5% is further reduced...

IT is pissing over $400... sad... sad... sad... "Any chance we could get away with..." NOT having idiots in IT??? 😉 Talk about penny wise and dollar foolish...

OH, and note that I think $50k/yr is pretty darn low, at least for a degreed design engineer... AND a $5000 workstation is incredibly HIGH... We're running HP z600's with FX4000, 12 gig ram that I think run around half that, though we lease them for business reasons...

Thanks...

Paul Korenkiewicz
FEV, Inc.
4554 Glenmeade
Auburn Hills, MI., 48326