Forum: Hardware & Operating Systems

Last Summer I was all about getting Revit, and was asking for feedback from you guys. Now, half a year later things have changed. I since quit my last job, took on another job, and was laid off...

Our office is leaning towards purchasing an Oce 350 plotter. We are currently plotting 12,000 - 15,000 sqft/month, but we would like to reduce that number if possible. We have encouraged the use...

It is a Contour Design ShuttlePRO v2 (shown below). Has anyone used or own one? How do you like it? I am going to use the ShuttlePro along with the mouse or trackball (hadnt made up my mind on that...

I'm thinking to buy a new laptop. My first choice would be HP mobile workstation 8470W. I have good experience with mobile workstation before, but this is for my personal use. The problem the graphic...

Does AutoCAD 2013 2D run any faster with Hyper Threads? What about AutoCAD 2013 3D and/or Inventor? Building a system to work from home with and I do not currently do 3D but I need to get...

I have not seen anything about this particular combination mentioned any place. I have a brand spanky new 64 bit, 6 gig ram, Windows 8 machine. My 32 bit machine died suddenly.:o:shock::( I...

I have Windows XP on my computer and I run Auto CAD Lite 2006. I was told when I was getting this computer a few years ago (when Windows Vista was just coming out) that I needed to have XP as my...

Hello everyone. I am brand new to these forums, so please excuse me if this post was made in the wrong area. I am working on selecting parts for a new rig to run AutoCAD Mechanical 2013, Inventor...

On my old laptop I ran Linux Ubuntu on it and really like it. So I thought I would install it on my Win8 machine. But, I didnt want to go the dual boot route . So I installed the Hyper-V. It is a...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Recently i made a post asking about Large format printer. Well this time the question is if you actully think investing in a printer is a sound decision. We would probley only...

Just installed my into my old Windows 8 home built CAD Station a new 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card plus 2 new 24" Acer Monitors; 1-H243H, 1-V243H. I first done a benchmark with my old...

Hi All, We use acad 2013 and are connected to server. While using xref or any files sized around 10mb, the computer slows down drastically. The commands like purge, save, audit etc hangs the...

Now I have to figure out how to program these two things. Together they have 31 buttons and 8 different actions. (i.e...scrolling, jogging, spanning, etc...) I thinking I am going to have to go...

We are upgrading a computer from 4GB ram to 24GB, is there anything we should configure so autocad uses that memory better or just once it's in the system it's there and we are all set?

Hi All , I am newbie , I want to buy a laptop , i will be using Autocade Architecture 2013 , could you recommend some of the best laptops for that ?

Ok.. Here goes.. As some may know my Win 7 machine was stolen after I only had it after a few weeks. But I obtained the 7 the same time I wiped my 32bit XP Cad Station in order to put my new 64bit...

I'm running AutoCAD 2013 on a Windows 7 x64 computer. It's got an AMD dual core 2.6 Ghz CPU in it and 2GB RAM. When I first installed AutoCAD 2013 it seemed to take a long time to load. Once it...