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perry  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, October 13, 2021 3:22:50 PM(UTC)
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I just upgraded because I have a new mac. a 3.6GHz 10 core i9 with a Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8GB GPU, 64GB RAM, and an SSD. It's screaming fast for every application I've put on it so far. It even manages to run Word, Excel, Photoshop and DaVinci Resolve simultaneously without missing a beat.

I was really hoping that ViaCad was slow on my old machine mainly because it was low on RAM and had a 4-core i7 that ran significantly slower, and that it'd be really zippy on this new machine. But importing a complex STEP model of a part takes *several minutes* waiting for the spinning beach ball. The same model existed (twice) in a ViaCad 11 project and it never took this long. Is the performance really going backwards or could it be something else?

Also, any way to make the middle mouse button (the scroll wheel button) drag the whole workspace around instead of rotating it?
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specktech on 10/17/2021(UTC)
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#2 Posted : Friday, October 15, 2021 5:55:40 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: perry Go to Quoted Post


Also, any way to make the middle mouse button (the scroll wheel button) drag the whole workspace around instead of rotating it?


Hold down the space bar when you do this, the mouse changes to a 'pan' hand and you can drag around.

I don't think the fastest computer in the world will make a difference to how this software works. My laptop is pretty quick, runs Catia and NX nicely, never fails, so is my server which also has a better graphics card and nothing changes between the two. Big models on my 2gb graphics laptop slowly stagger across the screen as they do on a 4gb graphics card.
I just don't think it uses everything it can. I'm not software engineer but you'd expect better performance pc to run apps better I know.
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specktech on 10/17/2021(UTC)
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#3 Posted : Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:50:24 AM(UTC)
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I have a nice Netbook with a AMD C-70 APU and this Software run there with a very good performance. I guess this Software use the most time just one thread, and if you have 20 Threads are 19 not in use.

Why you dont need the nice rotating-function? This works better than in every other CAD Software.

Rotating the View works also with the Alt+Right Mouse Button, and Changing the Rotating Midpoint works with Alt+RightMouse and CTRL and Click at the right snap point. When the middle mouse button works correctly you need only Middle Mouse+Ctrl+Click at Snap Point for changing the midpoint. This works not with the select tool in hand, because then are the snaps off, but with any other tool in hand.

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OS: Windows 10 | CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 | RAM: 32 GB | Graphic: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 | Shark FX 9 Build 1162 | Unit: mm
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