I have heard that 1st year engineering students will be working on Solid Edge and other softwares. Could anyone tell me the basic requirements that a laptop should have to run these softwares smoothly ? Any special graphics or processor or ram requirements for solid edge and others?

Originally Posted by Kanishka

I have heard that 1st year engineering students will be working on Solid Edge and other softwares. Could anyone tell me the basic requirements that a laptop should have to run these softwares smoothly ? Any special graphics or processor or ram requirements for solid edge and others?

I believe you can just use Solid Edge on the school's computer in JHE

Originally Posted by myster

I believe you can just use Solid Edge on the school's computer in JHE

but what if i want to use it on mine?

School computers have it but its better if you have it on your personal computer especially for the final project. So here is what I found, looks right to me.

Hardware Requirements

Recommended System Configuration:

Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processor

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

1 GB or more RAM

True Color (32-bit) or 16 million colors (24-bit)

Screen resolution of 1280x1024

Minimum System Configuration:

Intel Pentium, Intel Xeon, AMD Athlon, or AMD Opteron

Windows XP Professional

512 MB RAM

65K colors

Minimum Resolution: 1024x768

Disk space required for installation: 1.3 GB

From: http://www.plma.com.au/index_general....030.0 10.060
If you want to look it up yourself we use solid edge version 20

Originally Posted by dilks

School computers have it but its better if you have it on your personal computer especially for the final project. So here is what I found, looks right to me.

Hardware Requirements

Recommended System Configuration:

Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processor

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

1 GB or more RAM

True Color (32-bit) or 16 million colors (24-bit)

Screen resolution of 1280x1024

Minimum System Configuration:

Intel Pentium, Intel Xeon, AMD Athlon, or AMD Opteron

Windows XP Professional

512 MB RAM

65K colors

Minimum Resolution: 1024x768

Disk space required for installation: 1.3 GB

From: http://www.plma.com.au/index_general....030.0 10.060
If you want to look it up yourself we use solid edge version 20

they are quite basic requirements...thanks a lot!

Ya it doesn't take much to run it. Also keep in mind you may not be even using SolidEdge this upcoming year.

Originally Posted by Bender

Ya it doesn't take much to run it. Also keep in mind you may not be even using SolidEdge this upcoming year.

any idea what the first year students could be using instead of solid edge?

Hopefully something useful like autocad.

so autocad has the same requirements or higher or lower?

Originally Posted by Kanishka

so autocad has the same requirements or higher or lower?

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_th...d-2009-sy.html

Is that what you are asking about?

You can try to benchmark your computer by running solid edge with one complex part open then run the simulation and set object detail to very high and if you can move the object smoothly without hick ups, your good.

Originally Posted by Bobby66

You can try to benchmark your computer by running solid edge with one complex part open then run the simulation and set object detail to very high and if you can move the object smoothly without hick ups, your good.

thanks...i'll try that...