recomended Hardware for V5

[Darrude]

I know this has been asked loads of times before but.

We are currently looking at installing C3P-NG (Ford licensed Catia V5). We are currently running a Sun blade 1500 with 1Ghz processor and XVR-600 graphics card. Our catia supplier has suggested changing this to a windows PC and just to use the unix box to check data out to ford (ford require catia on unix). Is the performance improvment on windows worth the £1500ish price tag for a desent spec pc? If so does anyone also know if we'd need to go for XP_64bit to future proof the investment or will Catia remain 32bit.

Thanks in advacne.

Darren

 

[catiajim]

CATIA will be moving toward 64 bit, however they will support 32 bit for a long time to come.

Whether you need 64 bit or not depends upon what you are doing. If you are performing some heavy FEA, if you are creating very large DMU Sessions, or drafting very large assemblies, then make the 64 bit investment. Otherwise, you won't need it.

As for the investment, CATIA running in Windows is SIGNIFICANTLY faster than in UNIX. It is also SIGNIFICANTLY more functional than in UNIX. VBA is much beetter than VBScript, manipulating your Design Tables is much easier in Excel than in a tab-delimited text file, etc, etc, etc.