My son and daughter are involved in a robotics competition called FTC which is short for First Tech Challenge: [MEDIA=youtube]nRsu7bRFhx4[/MEDIA]
They would like a desktop capable of running Autodesk Inventor and the various programming tools for the robot. The requirements posted for inventor in knowledge base vs. tested-approved hardware doesn't seem to jive. Seems like Autodesk tests/approves of some pretty pathetic workstations then places much more stout requirements in for processor, ram, and graphics in their knowledge base.
The difference in cost is obviously substantial. Although, I don't want to spend any extra it needs to be enough. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve
This would be my first search
I run Inventor Pro daily. The horsepower matters on rendering more than anything. When I rendered the Minions such as my avatar, my office machine (i7 32Gb RAM) took a minute or two, my Surface Pro 4 (i5 8Gb RAM) at home took 40 minutes. The surface Pro can also be laggy when working with big files. Basically it will run, but, more horsepower really helps
I installed inventor PRO 2018 and played with it for about a month Demo
Its a interesting program and
the work flow helped me with the parts builder interface in C3D 2017 for manholes, head walls etc.
to understand work/sketch and constrains etc type stuff
I worked thru the you tube Videos by This guy TFI
Very entertaining chap
He has many video on bench marking and from i saw Inventor is PURE CPU power
a hot video card will not help
or solid state hard Drives
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Pete
Here is the computer i have i guess my $4000.00 K6000 is just for bragging with inventor
it has only 2 display ports i wish it had 3 so i can run 3 4k monitors
Computer
Xi Computer S/N: 037019
Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHZ
Mem 24.0 GB
Win 7 64.0 Bit
12 Gig Video Card NVIDIA K6000
2 4k Monitors display port
Autodesk C3D 2017 subscription Service auto update
HP T120 Roll feed 24" plotter.
