

There’s a HUGE line separating what a student and what a professional needs: Top 6 Best Laptops for SolidWorksīefore we go over these laptops I want to make something clear. Q: Why do you separate Modeling and Rendering?īecause modeling is much less hardware demanding than rendering thus you can model, draw, design on a less powerful machine (a laptop), then render on a say a desktop or a cloud service.ĭon’t worry, all laptops that follow will be able to do both on the same machine, I was just trying to be as accurate as possible. This table is not very hardware specific (I will list specific models soon though for specific projects) but you cannot go wrong if you follow stick with my guideline, especially the GPU (Graphics card). The following table is based on my experience with the software throughout the years, adapter to modern hardware: In my company we have a lab and a personal laptop in the office, the lab gives me access to different rigs with different hardware and since my assemblies usually range from 100 to 1000 parts, this has naturally forced me to benchmark the software under different hardware configurations.

If you’ve got the cash you can buy any of the certified certified workstation laptops, they’ll work wonders, the problem with those is that not only are they extremely expensive but they’re OVERKILL for most people. How do you get reliable information on exactly what hardware you will need for YOUR work? Three ways to do this: The same can be said about clock speed A project getting closed to ~500 parts requires a 6GB vRAM (min). The bigger the assembly, the more vRAM you’ll need. VRAM is where the assemblies are stored for you to keep modeling, rotating and simulating.
