<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I'd only go with a small form factor if we can get a decent video card with it. Solidworks is very video intensive and will bring many built-in graphics cards to their knees if larger assemblies or complex parts are built.<br><br>Nigel<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 11/19/10, Paul & Andrea Mumby <i><themumbys@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Paul & Andrea Mumby <themumbys@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Lab] A SolidWorks Christmas ...<br>To: "Andrew Plumb" <andrew@plumb.org><br>Cc: "lab" <lab@artengine.ca><br>Received: Friday, November 19, 2010, 10:31 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1866295155">Might I suggest going with a small form factor PC, in order to improve portability and ease of storage. Small PCs can be had for a reasonable
price with decent performance these days, which would be only slightly larger than the Mac Mini that modlab already has.<div>
<br></div><div>- Paul<br><br><div class="yiv1866295155gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Andrew Plumb <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:andrew@plumb.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=andrew@plumb.org">andrew@plumb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1866295155gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've added a Windows PC to the lab wish-list.<br>
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SolidWorks is Windows-only, along with plenty of other software packages and equipment drivers out there.<br>
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Booting up a Linux distro via USB is easy to do as the need arises.<br>
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Andrew.<br>
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On 2010-11-19, at 9:40 AM, krazatchu . wrote:<br>
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> Hello members of ORE and ArtEngine,<br>
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> At a yet to be disclosed location, on an unspecified day, I will be giving an introductory seminar on my favorite CAD package, SolidWorks.<br>
> The venue will most likely be Algonquin, and the date depending on resources, sometime in the near future...<br>
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> SolidWorks has offered a number of 150 day licenses for use by the attending members of ORE and ArtEngine community.<br>
> The purpose of this mail is to determine interest and likewise the number of licenses to give out.<br>
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> If you are interested, reply to the list or reply directly to me at <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:michael@krazatchu.ca" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=michael@krazatchu.ca">michael@krazatchu.ca</a>.<br>
> As SolidWorks is a very comprehensive package, I would also be interested in hearing what areas are of interest.<br>
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> Michael Grant<br>
> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.krazatchu.ca">www.krazatchu.ca</a><br>
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