Ug NX5 Workstation
Ug NX5 Workstation
(OP)
I use NX5 for free form design. When i make a change to one of the features it takes for ever to update all the other features. I am working on specing a new workstation and was wondering if ug use the video card or the cpu to crunch blend, and surfaces?





RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
The best advice is to spend as much as you can afford on the CPU itself (dual- versus single-core, clock speed, etc) AND memory. And fast hard drives can help as well. Then whatever you have left over, invest that in your graphics card, but whatever you do try to get one with no less than 128mb, unless of course you're also going to be playing games, then . . .
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
I am ready to upgrade my 4 yr old pc to accomodate
NX5's hearty appetite for resources. I also do mostly
free-form modeling and create some rather "heavy"
models. Since you recommend CPU power first can you give
us any tips on performance of say ...Duo-core vs Quad core?
Also realistically on a 32bit system does it make any sense
to have more than 2 gigs of RAM? I tend to have several
apps open at the same time.
thanks,
Walter
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"-
Arthur C. Clarke
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
Of course, if you move to a 64-bit system, even if you only install the 32-bit verion of NX, you can now leverage the theoretical limit of 4gb of memory as the O.S. will now run in the memory partition above where the 32-bit addressing ends.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
thanks again,
Walter
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"-
Arthur C. Clarke
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
As far as a 'native' version of NX on the Mac O.S., while we were hoping to have something ready for NX 5, it appears now that we won't be releasing anything until NX 6 and as you might expect, this will only be for Intel-based machines.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
Lastly if I am running a rendering task (Alias ImageStudio) simultaneously while modeling in NX5 would a quad-core processor be a significant advantage over a duo-core?
thanks again,
Walter
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"-
Arthur C. Clarke
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
Both, because first the software has to calculate the actual tesselation of the model based on your new tigher tolerance, and second, because the graphics card will now have jsut that many more facets to manage and refresh as you manipulate the display of the results. This is one of those cases where a little extra investment in both the CPU/Memory and the Graphices card will pay off.
Lastly if I am running a rendering task (Alias ImageStudio) simultaneously while modeling in NX5 would a quad-core processor be a significant advantage over a duo-core?
Only if you had already set the SMP switch in NX and you were doing some heavy Boolean updating, drafting hidden-line-calculation, faceting display updating in your NX session while your Imageware rendering process was running.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
I dont want to hyjack your thread....but here goes!
I have brought a MacPro (new 2008 spec one) and have set up using bootcamp the dual operating system feature and am running XP pro. I have installed UG NX2 onto this system.
All is well but in a model that i was working on, on my old system there appears to be some regenation issues...or something along those lines because basically there are "random" lines placed in the model, its kinda hard to explain without a picture but do you think that this was due to the Mac conflicting somehow? Or because I am running an old version of UG? Other than that the mac pro with a dual operating system is a great computer......
Regards
Rob
I have just noticed I can add a picture so I have tried to do...do you think the "lines" are there due to the components within the model?
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
64 Bit can see more but depends on your usage profile
-Dave Tolsma
http://groups.google.com/group/NX_CAX/
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
I have never had anything like this using NX-2 thru NX-5 on any Nvidia graphics cards on desktop of laptop machines that I have owned. I have a Sony Laptop Vaio, with an ATI card, which I know isn't really any good, and yet apart from the obvious performance penalty no major graphics problems. Yes like many we have had problems and sought to avoid ATI cards in the past.
If we have graphics problems it is usually with wireframe repaint not the shaded images. My only comment would be that it has the appearance of facet edges showing up inappropriately. Can you comment about whether if you turn on the facet edge display it look similar or not? Also what to you do to make it go away? We found that changing views and performing a repaint in doing so usually settles these graphics problems, but even going so far as to update and regenerate the displayed view after they occur does not remedy the problems we have had.
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
-Dave Tolsma
Tolsnet LLC
http://groups.google.com/group/NX_CAX/
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
We want to be able to move licenses around and between machines on an ad-hoc basis, so we can work at two or more different sites, and basically get higher hours of usage per license. With the dongle you were able to basically put it in your pocket and take the license home with you. With a laptop at least I'd have something portable and could serve the license by networking to a workstation at my destination if on occasion the files aren't considered portable for security reasons.
Regards
Hudson
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
-Dave Tolsma
Tolsnet LLC
http://groups.google.com/group/NX_CAX/
RE: Ug NX5 Workstation
That's what I'm saying and hence the laptop workaround. A few of us are less than impressed that a change has been made which appears to reduce the amount of flexibility that we previously had. On the other hand when we have expressed this our local reps have made some overtures towards making accommodation where possible. We have managed to retain the dongles for NX-5 at least.
Best regards
Hudson