Solidworks in Metaframe / Terminal Server

[jagadmin]

Does anyone have any experience running Solidworks in a Metaframe environment? We are looking into the possibility of having 3-4 users from a remote location connect to a Metaframe server to run Solidworks. I am looking for hardware recommendations and if/how well this would run compared to an individual workstation.

 

[kcarpenter]

I have personally tried to run SW via Citrix and it was a total waste of time. Performance wise it was not as fast as a workstation and trying to push the graphics totally stifled any benefits. If you understand how terminal emulation works you'll quickly realize it's not a solution to replace CAD workstations. You will always get better performance by running SW on a local workstation...period.

There have been a couple threads regarding this but I wasn't able to find them via a search.

Kevin Carpenter
CAD Systems Specialist
Invacare Corp.