My dad is the HOD of Mechanical department. Their deptt. needs to buy computers for their CAD lab. So he has asked me to suggest a configuration so that the computers will be able to run CAD softwares like CATIA, Pro/E, AutoCAD, SolidEDGE etc.
System requirements for -
Catia-
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/appli.../hwsysreq.html
Pro/E
http://www.ptc.com/partners/hardware...m_requirements
AutoCad 2010
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...12&id=11946449
For the processor, RAM, mobo I think something like Ahtlon64 X2 5200+ or E5200 with 2GB RAM and corresponding low end motherboards like m2n-mx-se+ or G31 will do.
But about the graphics card, I am not sure. I've been able to run CATIA V5 on my P4 3ghz and just the integrated graphics on my D915GLVG motherboard smoothly. But I saw a page (
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.c...=233955&page=1) where a person had problems running it using 9400GT. Please have a look at the system requirements given above for the 3 softwares and suggest a good config.
Configuration for using CAD Softwares?
Linear Mode
