Thread: AutoCAD hardware
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Old 11-04-2009, 21:12   #18
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Re: AutoCAD hardware
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Originally Posted by Down the Pub View Post
most of our cad drawings are a 200-400kb , and this is for quite detailed electrical schematics but ga layouts get much bigger. now this may differ depending if the client has any add-on packages integrated into autocad and how detailed the layout/schematics are.

i.e if i draw a control panel then i would use different layers and colour's for for various components, in the end the overall layout may end up being a meg or so and depending on how many drawings there are in a package it does start to mount.


as for hardware, i always found that plenty of memory and a good gfx card were top of the list - i do a bit at home on my pc when i don't have time and autocad runs well enough on my 8800gts, although i must admit that i don't deal with 3d work
My workplace deals with landscape layouts and building plans, which can come out at 20mb a drawing.
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