The vessel must be designed to ASME code to pass CRN. The 3rd party inspector would be your normal ASME Authorized Inspector who signs off on everything.
Defenitely go with the fastest dual-core you can get. The quad cores aren't going to help you any over a dual core in Solidworks. I recently went from a 2.8Ghz Pentium D to the Xeon 5160 (3.00 GHz) and the improvement in performance in AMAZING!
We also went with the Precision 490. If it's...
I have experienced similar issues with Excel tables in Solidworks. It seems to have a size limit that can't be overcome. I had a table about 20 columns wide and could not for the life of me get it to show more than the first 15. Played with table width, font size, scale, etc. Finally...
Picked these up about a month ago with a nice discount from Dell. Looks like they were worth it!
Manufacturer : Dell Inc.
Model : Precision WorkStation 490
OS : Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS SP : Service Pack 2
CPU : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz
# of CPU : 2
Memory : 2045...
Same problem here has been broken since I installed 2007, never had this problem with 2004-2006. Everytime you rescale the drawing the blocks retain their old scale and get messed up. I fix the problem by deleting and reinserting the block after the rescale which can be a royal PITA if you...