MihaiGuigouas

Thank you very much for your answers, it seems I will go for tre I-4770k or I-7-5820 depending on the final price.

Hello and thx for your answer. The 1200 figure was because I already have some of the components like case, PSU, HDD. I'm interested about the value (a.k.a "bang for the buck") of a refurbished wokstation (Z800 frum the description) versus a modern non-Xeon I-7 CPU. From a GHz point of view the old workstation seems far superior but I think this could be compensated by newer technology. I'm not Greek but from Romania.

Hello, I have approx. 1200 EUR to get a new workstation for the following: Archicad 17/18, Sketchup with VRAY and possibly 3dsMAX with VRAY. I have two options: Either a new personal built machine: six core I-7 5820K 3.3 GHz, with 16GB RAM, GTX960 as graphics card, 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD and the rest of hardware OR a refurbished HP TowerZ800 with dual six-core X5670 2.93GHz, with 16GB DDR and NVIDIA QUADRO 2000 as graphics card and 1TB HDD, without SSD. Thanks!

Well Andrew, your name will be in my prayers !!! You saved my day and my reputation in the office I changed the driver to Direct3D and now the card works like it should do. Previous in was OpenGL with the disastrous performance.

Hello, I've just installed a new Gygabite GTX 650 onto my computer (I7, 12GB RAM, 3dsMax 2013, WinXP64 SP2) installed latest drivers from NVIDIA and it doesn't run any better than my very old NVIDIA Geforce 9400 and much worse than a laptop NVIDIA GT630M. Well, I wasn't expect to beat a professional Quadro but I wasn't expect to run as slow as a 6 years old card either or worse than an inferior card from the same generation. Can anybody help me? THX

OK Niklas, maybe you cannot collapse ALL the layers but at least you can collapse some of the layers to a manner that don't disclose your work technique like group the layers in 2-3 merged layers, add 1-2 quasi-irrelevant layers and so on. As for the max files, all you have to do is to overly (and useless) increase some settings in GI or glossy reflections or such. This way a single rendering will take them 1-2 days and your files will be useless for them. And then, learn from this episode, specify in the contract that the source files are not for sale.

Hello, I'm in process of buying a second machine. I have to choose between an used I7-920 which for me means an investment of about 500EUR or to build a new one around an I7-2600K (or maybe an 2700) which would cost me about 1000-1100EUR. I'm intending to use them for Max2011 with VRay, archviz, mostly static images, max.2000x3000 px . I already have an I7-920 for 2.5 years and I'm quite pleased of it. Is the 2600K worth the extra money? How it would fare against the old I7-920? Thanks

Hi, thanks for the answers. But...I have about one hundred of slightly different objects, think about door/windows frames, (and that's what they are btw) they are very similar yet slightly different objects. They are somewhat customized so I have to model them in ACAD. I have blocks with hinges and handles but filleting the edges of the frames is very time consuming and tedious. One method I thought of is to bake as blocks just the corners and T junctions and then extrude the faces in order to meet them and create the desired frames. Sole problem is that is almost as tedious as creating them by extruding contours and then filleting the edges one by one.

Hello, As the title says, how can I fillet all the edges of a simple, rectangular solid (such as a rectangular slab with 2-3 rectangular holes in it) at once? In AutoCAD 2011. In have near a hundred of such simple solids and In need to fillet all the edges of them with the same constant radius. Thanks