Seeking Advice - Convincing Boss About Needed PC Specs for Solidworks
Ok so I work in a steel fabricators as their CAD designer, I have a meeting coming up monday to discuss with management the need for a new cad station. They are throwing fits over the pc being 3 years old, not wanting to get a new machine.
The current machines is a dell 3660 precision tower with a 12900k intel cpu and rtx a4000 card. It rarely gets max performance, seems power limited and cooling limited. At the time work would not spend more for a more current machine at the time.
My biggest issue is the graphics cards vram is reporting errors with all spares exhausted. Solidworks crashes sporadically taking drawings with it. Some drawings end up corrupted and the machine cant save work half the time. When it does manage to open bigger projects it can take 20 minutes to an hour, regardless if the files saved locally to an nvme or to a network drive.
Some of our projects require 20+ page fabrication drawings, assemblies can top out at upto 1000 bodies. We mostly do projects using weldments and sheet metal. Alot of complex vessels, scrubbers, platforms and steelwork stairs.
At the moment I've put a recommendation in for a new station with an intel ultra 9 285k cpu paired with nvidea blackwell 4000 card. But the machines another dell precision work station so I have concerns with its performance being limited.
Any advice is greatly appreciated, this issues causing alot of stress and friction.