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awemawson:
Pekka, I built a desktop specifically for Fusion - although it's video performance is a bit slow according to Autodesk. It's based on a Dell Optiplex 7010 ultra small form factor base unit that I put a fairly fast SSD in and upped the ram to 8 Gb. It's an i3-3220 running at 3.3 Ghz with 2 cores and 4 logical processors. (The video is on board). It's running Windows 7 64 bit
PekkaNF:
Thank you, that sounds like pretty good machine. How well it works?
I was offered a second hand business laptop for 450 EUR. New ones are about the same price, but bit smaller SSD and W10 Home or W7.
HP 250 G5 i3-5005U 15.6inch HD SVA AG 8GB(1x8GB) 256GB SSD DVDRW UMA NO WWAN W10PRO64
2 GHz, 8GB, not that sure about graphics "card" Intel HD Graphics 5500....
Sounds to me slow and expensive.
Desktop probably would come out cheaper vs. performance, but it needs more desk space, monitor, etc. and I could not retire it to my daughter if I loose interest or autodesk will jack up the price.
Pekka
awemawson:
These days I'm totally confused with cpu names and numbers, cores, logical processors etc - there are just too many variants :bang:
Time was when you had a 286 or a 386 or if you were really flash a 486 :lol:
The MyHermes girl has just delivered a couple of rolls of PetG filament, so when I've got myself back together (*) I'll go and try it out.
(* Just had to have the Sow put down, all a bit traumatic as the fellow used a 12 bore rather than the captive bolt gun that I'd expected, and there was blood everywhere - just spent two hours clearing the drains that he blocked so not feeling too fresh :bang: )
PekkaNF:
I was pretty good with those 286/386 PC.s, even rembered some port adresses in Hex, last time I assembled together PC was maybe -95 something, it's all gone grazy.
I better ask some new kids, but it really looks like choices are between facebookhousewife, corporateglueeye or gamingsockontheheadzombi PC:s. Very little ready made PC.s for homeshop machinist 3D cad users....
This forgot to say the most important - graphics cards:
http://blog.grabcad.com/blog/2015/07/28/kick-ass-cad-workstation-build/
How on earth people can afford these? 400€ is on the limit which makes me consider seriously and mull over few days. For non paying use 2000 USD sounds a lot to me of PC. This well served laptop I bought used 160€ and it has served me well from new then W7 to stable nowW10.
Pekka
Pekka
awemawson:
The Pet-G printing tests were a success :thumbup:
I printed a pair of the boxes and lids at exactly the same settings as previously when printing in PLA, except that I upped the nozzle temperature to 240 deg C. No heated bed (not turned up yet!) but it seemed to cope OK.
I did notice that the raft was markedly more difficult to peel from the model. To test the size compatibility I tried PLA lids on Pet-G boxes and vice versa and they fitted fine. Subjectively the Pet-G in more flexible.
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