Check out this article here laying out our minimum specs. I did want to note however, that these are our minimum specs however and depending on the complexity and size of the models you plan on creating - you may need more than the minimum. Personally you may want to look at laptops that have decent CAD video cards as well as a strong processor. Personally, I am on a Mac right now and here are my specs:
thinking of buying a Mac desktop and the million dollar question is, does fusion use multithreading for the simulations or let me rephrase, do I buy a higher clock speed processor with less cores or a little lower clock speed with 8 to 12 cores? I am interested more in the non linear simulations then anything else.
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Fusion Sim will use multiple cores for meshing and solving when these operations are run locally, but it doesn't use multiple cores all the time. Meshing can use more cores if you have lots of parts, but it will only use one core if you have a single part. The solves you are able to run locally will only use up to 8 cores, but only at certain points during the calculation. You can also only do one local solve at a time.
Generally you are better off getting CPU with a higher clock speed for Fusion, as there are many operations which do not benefit from multiple cores. For example, you might be better off with an 8 core, 3.4+ Ghz system, than with a 16 core, 2.2 Ghz system.
In similar fashion to the question regarding the clock speed, I was wondering about video cards. I have researched and found where softwares like Solidworks and others really run well with CAD spec'd video cards, such as the Nvidia Quadro and AMD FirePro. Similarly, I believe some of the higher end machines have CAD focused processors, such as the Intel Xeon. For Fusion 360, are these cards/processors a benefit, or would higher end i7's or something like that be better money spent?
I am F360 on a maxed out 2012 retina 15 Macbook with absolutely no trouble at all.
I'd absolutely stay on the macOS world and grab one of Apple's pro devices. If rendering is on your radar, try and jump to the best GPU available as that will help, especially as the AMD 'pro' cards suck pretty hard against Nvidia cards.
Apparently updated macbooks might be dropping at WWDC, so perhaps hold out if you can.
I'm going the opposite way to you and am starting to play with Logic Pro.
Thanks for your explanations! I have a related question about CPU usage. One of my projects is having quiet a few components, so that the calculation-all-command (Ctrl+B) of the project takes currently > 30 seconds. However, when I check the CPU usage none of the 4 cores is really busy. The top usage of one of the cores is maybe 60%. The others remain inbetween 10 and 40%. You explained that some the calcualtion cannot be done with more than on core, so that's ok. I am wondering why that main-core is not showing a usage of close to 100%? Is the program performing "delays/no-operation-commands"?
Is there anything I can do in my project desing to speed up the calculation? I was already making sure to have as few relations in-between components as possible, so many components do not depend on each other.
In other situations, for instance when I just click on the top-level entry of the projekt and no calculation seems to be required (at least to me) then all 4 cores show a usage of 100% for several seconds and the PC freezes.
Without looking at your model it is difficult to determine why the CPU usage is not near 100% on recompute. It is even possible that this is something that we could improve. When you click on the top level entry of the project it will probably try to select the entire model, and this requires a graphical effect to be applied. The graphics processing in Fusion is highly multithreaded, so it isn't surprising that this maxes out your CPUs.
I see numerous places the graphics card is to be 512 MB BDDR RAM or more, except Intel GMA X3100 cards. What does THAT mean?! Intel cards can't be used no matter what? Intel cards are so good any of them can be used? WHAT?
Thank you again Rob for your explanations. Very useful!
Would it make sence to send you my project so you can find out why none of the four CPU cores shows 100% usage when the Ctrl+B (Calculate all) command is called?
The percentages in taskmanager are averages over the unit of time determined by the update frequency. If CPU A is 100% busy for 10 milliseconds, then it asks CPU B to do something and then has to wait for 10 milliseconds, and the refresh frequency is 20ms, then the utilization for both CPUs would be 50%. I expect that during the update interval, Fusion is cycling between main thread processing and multithreaded processing, resulting in the numbers you are seeing. There is also the possibility that sometimes there are multiple threads waiting on a shared resource, something called 'contention'. Sometimes this is unavoidable, sometimes this can be fixed or improved. You could export your file to a Fusion archive and log a support ticket, but I can't make any guarantees on how soon the modeling team will look into it.
I created a football type shape by drawing a 3 point arc, closing the shape with a single line, then using the form -> revolve tool to make it a body. When I finish the form, I can create a box around half of it, which will allow me to cut half the football away, but it won't allow me to do it inversely and leave the box with a football shape cut out of it.
PS, back in the 3dsmax days like 15 years ago you would use the boolean tool and "select operand B" to choose which object you are using as the cutting shape. My searches for fusion360 boolean didn't look like it was what I was talking about. Maybe I was just impatient and would rather ask those who may just know and spare myself 4 hours of googling and messing around.
My guess is that you're trying to do the boolean while making the box. Instead make the box as a separate body and then use the modify>combine tool to subtract either one from the other. Here's a video showing it
I'm just curious if Autodesk has a veteran discount for some of their offerings. I've paid for the eagle license but 495 dollars a year is a bit steep for a joe bloe in his garage. Solidworks offers their student discount for their software for veterans, why doesn't autodesk?
I'll take a peek into if we offer anything along those lines - but I did want to let you know that we offer Fusion 360 for free for hobbyists, enthusiasts, or start-up companies (making less than 100$k). More information on how to sign up for the free Fusion 360 license can be found here.
I'm in the same boat, there are several features that are not available in the home use version. I was really shocked to learn there was no type of discount what so ever. As mentioned earlier, even Solidworks offers a steep discount to active duty military and veterans since they role them up under the student license program. Autodesk only offers a marginal blanket discount to those ACTIVELY enrolled in a course at only schools they say qualify.
That wasn't the issue being addressed. There was a statement made that Military falls under the student discount. That is not actionable information currently, as there is no "institution" to input for which the military member would be a "student."
I've tried and it asks for "school name" which isn't any help for veterans or active duty personnel. Also Autodesk uses an outside agency who verify student/teacher/school administrator status. There is no option for military.
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