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unigrafhics performance

unigrafhics performance

unigrafhics performance

Multi-core means more than 2, but over 4 is a waste as far as NX is concerned, but you might be running other applications at the same time, so...

BTW, it's spelled Unigraphics, but that's a name that we have not used officially in many years (9 to be exact).

 

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum:   http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 

RE: unigrafhics performance

Does the manufacturing (generate tool path and post process) take advantage of i7?

RE: unigrafhics performance

Starting with NX 7.5 there is now an option to start a toolpath generation which will be spawned to another processor and return the user to his NX session while the path is being computed so that he can do other tasks and then reconnect with the toolpath when it's completed, thus leveraging the power of multpile core processors.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum:   http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 

RE: unigrafhics performance

@John Baker

If the OP is a designer I am guessing he is interested in multi-core for booleans and silhouettes rather than manufacturing processing.

At any rate...
I am currently using NX7.5 and I can specify up to 4 concurrent processes to crunch.  I have not installed NX8 yet but in the beta I seem to remember it was 6 or 8; or perhaps it was just an article I read about a future planned capability.  I honestly do not remember.  Sometimes I wish I had a hex or octo core rig to crunch cam operations.    

NX 7.5
  

RE: unigrafhics performance

I'm not aware of any change in the number of cores (or 'threads' as the software people describe it) to more than 4 but I could be mistaken.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum:   http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 

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