Autodesk Wikipedia. Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinationalsoftware corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers work3 in its San Francisco building. The company has offices worldwide, with U. S. locations in Northern California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas and in New England in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and Canada locations in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta. The company was founded in 1. John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of Auto. CAD, the companys flagship computer aided design CAD software. Its Auto. CAD and Revit software is primarily used by architects, engineers, and structural designers to design, draft, and model buildings and other structures. Autodesk software has been used in many fields, from the New York Freedom Tower4 to Tesla electric cars. Autodesk became best known for Auto. CAD but now develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment as well as a line of software for consumers, including Sketchbook, Homestyler, and Pixlr. The company makes educational versions of its software available at no cost to qualified students and faculty through the Autodesk Education Community, and also as a donation to eligible nonprofits through Tech. Soup Global. Autodesks digital prototyping software, including Autodesk Inventor, Fusion 3. Autodesk Product Design Suite, are used in the manufacturing industry to visualize, simulate, and analyze real world performance using a digital model during the design process. The companys Revit line of software for building information modeling is designed to let users explore the planning, construction, and management of a building virtually before it is built. Autodesks Media and Entertainment division creates software for visual effects, color grading, and editing as well as animation, game development, and design visualization. Max and Maya are both 3. D animation software used in film visual effects and game development. ProductseditPlatformsedit. A screenshot of Auto. CAD, Autodesks flagship product. Platform Solutions and Emerging Business PSEB division develops and manages the product foundation for most Autodesk offerings across multiple markets, including Autodesks flagship product Auto. CAD, Auto. CAD LT, Auto. CAD for Mac, and Auto. CAD 3. 60. Autodesk Suites, Subscription and Web Services, which includes Autodesk Cloud, Autodesk Labs, and Global Engineering are also part of PSEB. In what was seen as an unusual step for a maker of high end business software, Autodesk began offering Auto. CAD LT 2. 01. 2 for Mac through the Apple Mac App Store. Also part of PSEB is the Autodesk Consumer Product Group, which was created in November 2. D design and foster a new wave of designers who hunger for sophisticated software. The products from the group include 1. D, Fluid FX, Homestyler, Pixlr, and Sketch. Book. Users range from children, students and artists to makers and DIYers. Architecture, engineering and constructioneditThe Architecture, Engineering and Construction AEC industry group is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, in a LEED Platinum building1. Autodesk software. Autodesks architecture, engineering, and construction solutions include Auto. CAD based design and documentation software such as Auto. CAD Architecture formerly Architectural Desktop, Auto. CAD MEP1. 4 formerly Autodesk Building Systems, and Auto. CAD Civil 3. D. Their flagship product for relational Building information modeling is Revit. Revit is available as Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, Revit MEP or an all in one product. Quadro vs. GeForce Whats Best for an AutoCad Solidworks Sketchup Adobe CS Workstation Round 11,3491. Mates,As I moved from 2D to 3D CAD in. The AEC division also develops and manages software for the Construction industry, including Buzzsaw, Constructware, and the Navis. Works acquired 2. Infrastructure industry, including Auto. CAD Civil 3. D, Auto. How to get your AutoCAD serial number If you need to find the serial number of your AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Civil 3D. Fotos/thumbs3/produto_Foto3_1519612.jpg' alt='Autocad Mechanical Desktop 2004' title='Autocad Mechanical Desktop 2004' />CAD Map. D, and Auto. CAD Map. Guide Enterprise and the Plant industry, including Auto. CAD P ID and Auto. CAD Plant 3. D. The Autodesk Services Marketplace offering helps its clients train their team in AEC Industry1. Projects that have used software from the Autodesk AEC division include the NASA Ames building,1. San Francisco Bay Bridge,1. Shanghai Tower, and New Yorks Freedom Tower. ManufacturingeditAutodesks manufacturing industry group is headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The companys manufacturing software is used in various manufacturing segments, including industrial machinery, electro mechanical, tool and die, industrial equipment, automotive components, and consumer products. Products include Fusion 3. Autodesk Product Design Suite, Autodesk Factory Design Suite, Autodesk Inventor Suite, Autodesk Inventor Professional Suite, Auto. CAD Mechanical, Autodesk Vault, Alias Products, Simulation Mechanical, CFD, and Moldflow. Media and entertainmenteditAutodesk Media and Entertainment products are designed for digital media creation, management, and delivery, from film and television visual effects, color grading, and editing to animation, game development, and design visualization. Autodesks Media and Entertainment Division is based in Montreal, Quebec. It was established in 1. Autodesk, Inc. acquired Discreet Logic, Inc. Kinetix. In January 2. MechanicalDesktop2004/Glava%2015/13.gif' alt='Autocad Mechanical Desktop 2004' title='Autocad Mechanical Desktop 2004' />Autodesk acquired Alias, a developer of 3. D graphics technology. In October 2. 00. Autodesk acquired the Softimage brand from Avid. The principal product offerings from the Media and Entertainment Division are the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites, which include Maya, Softimage, 3ds Max, Mudbox, Smoke, Flame, and Lustre. Much of Avatars visual effects were created with Autodesk media and entertainment software. Autodesk software enabled Avatar director James Cameron to aim a camera at actors wearing motion capture suits in a studio and see them as characters in the fictional world of Pandora in the film. Autodesk software also played a role in the visual effects of Alice in Wonderland, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Inception, Iron Man 2, King Kong, Gladiator, Titanic, and other films. In 2. 01. 1, Autodesk acquired a cloud based set of image tools and utilities called Pixlr. RendererseditAutodesk develops and purchased many specific purpose renderers but many Autodesk products had been bundled with third party renderers such as NVIDIA Mental. Ray or Iray. Autodesk Raytracer ART aka Rapid. RT2. 3 a simple pathtracing renderer which is based on Opticore technology. Autodesk VRED a Open. GLoffline renderer which supports direct NURBS raytracing. Render. Gin formerly Augenblick MMV a discontinued realtime NURBS raytracing renderer the technology was merged into VRED. Autodesk Realtime Renderer formerly VSR Realtime Renderer a discontinued raytracing renderer for Rhinoceros 3. D. Arnold Renderer a CPU only mono directional pathtracing renderer for animation and visual effects. Turtle a primary texture baking renderer in Maya LT its baking technology was also used in Beast, a discontinued lighting middleware with baking tools. Maya Software a scanlineraytracing hybrid renderer in Maya. Max Scanline a scanlineraytracingradiosity hybrid renderer in 3ds Max. Lightscape a discontinued radiosity renderer its technologies were merged within Autodesk VIZ later 3ds Max Design. Quadro vs. Ge. Force The Best for Auto. Cad, Solidworks, Sketchup, CS6 Quadro vs. Ge. Force Whats Best for an Auto. Cad Solidworks Sketchup Adobe CS Workstation Round 1. Mates,As I moved from 2. D to 3. D CAD in 2. Dell Precision T5. Xeon x. 54. 60 Quad Core 3. GHz, 4. GB RAM upgraded to 1. GB, Quadro FX 5. TB Barracuda, Vista Business 6. Windows 7 Ultimate 6. I was unprepared for the complex decision of which graphic card would be best suited for the applications I use Auto. Cad 2. 00. 7, Sketchup now 8 Pro, Solid. Works 2. 01. 0 x. Corel Technical Designer X 5, and Adobe CS4. Quadros were and are almost universally praised for their 2. D CAD capabilities and Autodesk and Solidworks have provided specialized drivers to optimize performance of their software using Quadros. However, it occurred to me that the lesser 3. D performance of Quadros as compared to Geforce GTX should be considered as I work then and now more in Sketchup and other 3. D applications and with large files 8. MB. I am learning Revit, a 3. D program with big files and a lot of rendering power needed. The more I learn about rendering, the more I see the need for a very high performance computer CPU, GPU. Mempry, and disk all have to be great. Because the graphics performance is so essential to fluent use of the applications I use, it seemed to me, one of the best ways to choose a graphics card is to visit the sites of the applications you intend to use and look into their recommendations for the most demanding version of their applications. Also, nvidia, which makes the chips and drivers for both Geforce and Quadro offers drivers that are partnered for specific use you can get a specific Solidworks x. Autodesk and I think Archi. Cad, do this as well with Autodesk having tested cards with subsequent recommendation and certification. When I use the T5. Auto. Cad 2. 00. 7 with a Geforce GTX 2. I had a periodic message, This computer has non certified hardware or similar error message, no doubt referring to the GTX card. The Autodesk application I think is the most demanding is the Product Design Suite Ultimate, a vast program which includes Auto. Cad, Mechanical Inventor Pro with simulation, 3ds Max, Mudbox, Electrical, and much more. Ive read that Mudbox is quite demanding though Autodesk only mentions the need for Open GL support for that application. Maya is another heavy resource program lots of rendering, lots of polygons. You need 6. 0GB HD space and something over 1. For 3. D modeling the minimum system is amazingly, a Pentium 4, 3. GHz and 4. GB RAM, or 8. Gb for large assemblies. The recommended cards include ATI Firepros, but mainly Quadros. I was interested to see that Autodesk still recommends the old Quadro FX 5. MB card I now use in my old Dell Optiplex 7. AMD X2 6. 00. 0, 3. GHz, 6. GB, WD 7. GB a card which I see on Ebay for as little as 3. The Quadro FX X8. XX cards are all there 1. Geforce. In less demanding applicati. Auto. Cad 2. 01. 3 still having a lot of 3. D capability the old series Quadros such as FX 3. Bay, 5. 80 3. 5, 1. Geforce 2 series GTX 2. Useful guides for graphics cards may be found in Wikipedia under Quadro and Comparison of nvidia Geforce, listing the specifications of those lines of graphics cards. See http en. ComparisonofNvidiagraphicsprocessingunits See http en. Quadro I was struck in the Quadro list by the specs of the FX 5. GB, and so on, all for only 2,7. Quadros until the 6. GB FX 6. 00. 0 over 3,0. However, there is a note on this listing that the GPU and specification except memory the GTX 2. GB, instead of 4 is shared with the Geforce GTX 2. I could buy a lightly used GTX 2. Bay for 1. 40, that too seemed a no miss choice. I also then believed that it was possible to soft mod the GTX 2. Quadro 5. 80. 0, but of course learned later that that trick was by then no longer allowed by nvidia. After installing Windows 7 Ultimate 6. Jay Jayanti Bengali Movie. I installed the GTX 2. T5. 40. 0 and put the Quadro FX 5. Dell Dimension 8. Pentium 4 6. 30 3. GHZ, 3. GB, ATI Radeon 9. GB Seagate, XP Pro 6. CPUs, the hyperthreading Prescott single core which read in Device Manager as two cores. Then I discovered Passmark Performance Test and surprise and disappointment. The T5. 40. 0 with the GTX 2. D score was only 3. D score as 2. 20. Strangely, The Dimension 8. RAM has an overall mark of 4. D was 4. 44 and 3. D 2. 61. In 2. D, the 5. MB Quadro FX 5. 80 on a single core CPU was outperforming by nearly 5. GB GTX 2. 85 on a quad core Xeon computer that new cost about 9,0. D Given the relatively low 3. D score of the FX 5. I learned then that Quadros of that era were indeed 2. D specialists, but the much lower 2. D score of the GTX on the T5. To make a long story 2. I eventually learned that the Windows 7 Classic and Aero themes Id tried were killers of 2. D performance, at least on this T5. Turning to the nasty baby blue Windows 7 Basic theme, the 2. D score of the T5. D improved from 2. The overall rating of the 5. I have never read of anyone else reporting the severe performance penalty of the Win 7 Classic and Aero themes, but there we are. This event made we wonder about all the other discreet performance hogs lurking in all the helpful fuzzy bears background program and Ive become an obsessive Task Manager watcher right click on the Task Bar to see what the CPU and memory is up to at any given moment. As Ive used the T5. I began to be dissatisfied with the performance in Sketchup, which I was using more and more in ever larger files. As the models became large, each time I changed the viewpoint, the wait to regen was frustrating. I use Sketchup too casually that is not very systematically, not taking full advantage of layers and components, and consequently, waiting to regen a view with shadows on a 1. MB model seemed to take forever. I did learn that view regens depend on the amount of geometry that is visible, so I learned to navigate over the model in plan or around the edges and then zoom in to the position I wanted at the very last so that the least amount of 3. D trees and other polygon rich objects were visible. It even helps to always save the drawing in a view with little geometry visible. Also, a big performance help is to add trees and any complex imported 3. D models at the last minute when everything else is finished and still place them on a layer that can be turned off. For general working, display in monochrome, and definitely, do not turn on shadows until you need to test views for rendering or 2. D image export. When navigating, keep the model in constant motion artificially moving it about, or it will freeze and begin to fill in all the complex geometries. Last month December, 2. I was planning a Solidworks assembly of 6,0. I decided to try a higher level Quadro again. Searching the specification charts, I was again immersed in the morass of Quadro precision and specialized application drivers vs. Geforce 3. D speed and at much lower cost. Interestingly, the newer Quadros seemed to have changed their emphasis from 2. D to 3. D performance in accordance with the extreme shift, especially in architectural CAD to 3. D applications like Revit. After some research, which showed the FX 4. GB, 1. 92 CUDA cores producing stunningly good results in Solidworks and interestingly, this card was optimizied also for Adobe CS4, I found a relatively low hours one about 1. Precision T3. 50. Bay for 1. 50. The FX 4. The Quadro 4. 80.