From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Performance Tuning
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Know your workstation - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Performance Tuning
Know your workstation
- [Instructor] No matter what you use SolidWorks for, it's important that you have a basic understanding of computer software and just as importantly, computer hardware. Starting out with a workstation or laptop that can meet the demands of your SolidWorks install will be critical to decreasing design time. As well as increasing your productivity, it will limit the frustrations that come along with random crashes, frozen screens and failing models. Let's take a look at the most critical components in any workstation or laptop. When looking at computer hardware, the most important piece of any workstation or laptop, is going to be your CPU. This is your main processing unit for the computer. The more capacity your CPU has, the better SolidWorks will perform. Next on the list we have RAM, or random access memory. By increasing the capacity of our RAM, it gives us the ability to open larger files and work on multiple designs at once in SolidWorks. If you limit the RAM that's in your…
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