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No rating yet Subject: Re: platforms Author: Bryan Baskin Date: 1999-08-24 14:30:00True, one of the best "upgrades" we got was CADFix for dealing with geometry from CATIA. This one tool saved several days per moderate to large model. On the other hand doubling our Octane's RAM once and then again also really helped in running several ANSYS sessions at once.
I'd still like a faster box for those 18-36 hour contact analysis problems...
Later, Bryan Baskin
-----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 2:13 PM To: Christopher Wright
Agreed. You want to throw the bucks at the bottleneck. If you spend lots of time building models, maybe a better graphics board or a seat of Femap is of more value than a faster CPU. A fun one for me was when I went to bat for some hardware and software upgrades so we could improve turnaround time. About the time we got this in place, we upgraded Unigraphics from V9 to V10. The quality of the geometry we got went right in the crapper. The time we saved with our new toys went into redrawing all the CAD parts we were getting, for a net gain of zippo. That was fun to try and explain!!