What are you trying to accomplish?
What are you trying to accomplish?
Gary W. Priester
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ok so this may be some help: https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/227344
but if you havnt already, checking with the company if your graphics cards should work would be my next step
if you are paying what the program costs then 500 for a graphics card may not be that much pro rata - or look at it the other way round - if you did not need the card, the program would cost a lot more....
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Yes, unfortunately my graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB) isn't supported.
If you can convince SolidWorks that you are a genuine startup the cost for SWX for 1 year is zero.
It looks like a half-decent card (e.g. a NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000) will cost me about £800 or £900. I simply can't afford that sort of money I am now inventigating getting a "refurb" one
e.g. This one from ByteStock.com is just £720.00 (inc VAT) +11 for delivery...
https://www.bytestock.com/nvidia-qua...-0500-210.html
J
I have to say that a new card will always be worth the extra, I would never buy such a thing 'refurb' - but that said I appreciate the financial constraint, and it is not as if you have time to save-up if you are limited to a year; bummer
horse has bolted I know, but I learnt very early on in animation that you need to put together a workstation [computer] that will cope with what you need to do, and that you need to look at it holistically from the off - I build myself in order to make sure they are capable which an off the shelf mainstream computer would not be designed for - that said I could buy a ready made workstation, but it would mean spending megabucks and I am not convinced I would need all that power
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This may be too simple (like me ), but if Solidworks can export a video as, say, a 1920x1080 mp4 or some other friendly format it will be anti-aliased in the process. It would then be a simple task to take a few screen grabs from the video which could then be easily manipulated in Xara.
I'm quite shocked at the amount of money required for solidworks - as in licence costs and hardware.
What is it specifically that you need from this software compared to far cheaper, very capable alternatives shiphen?
Paul
[ the last time I used high-end CAD software was way back in the day. The system used either hardwired pens or track-balls. I used to program the system to create integrated circuit designs using Fortran, then later systems used C.
These days most people I know are using onShape, but there are so many other solutions way less expensive than solidworks.
I have a license for Moi3D but haven't got to grips with it yet, and I know of furniture makers doing their original designs using Lightwave3D before passing it on to CAD based systems. ]
Shipen, I just wanted to be clear that my curiosity about your use of solidworks is simply to understand what it is that drew you to it and to wonder if you could save yourself a lot of money by using an alternative.
I have no gripe with solidworks, or your choice to use it. I wish you well in your venture (whatever it is).
Paul
My product designers have created a 3D design of my product in SolidWorks. My patent attorney needs some line drawings of 3D views of my product based on the SolidWorks designs, for use in my patent application.
I now have a copy of SolidWorks v2020. As you may know SolidWorks is extremely expensive but it seems to be the industry norm for manufacturing industry. I have a 4K screen and I was hoping to be able to take some screenshots for my patent application.
However despite having a reasonably good graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB) I can't get SolidWorks to anti-alias to screen.
So I was hoping to export a 3D view of my product in vector format so that I can create exactly what I want from Xara.
J
PS Here is a list of ways in which you can export from SolidWorks v2020:
Attempting to export as Adobe Illustrator crashes my computer every time. :^[
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