solidworks workstation
Over 2 million designers and engineers rely on SOLIDWORKS in order to bring their designs to life. With an intuitive, integrated, 3D design environment covering all aspects of product development, SOLIDWORKS maximizes productivity by focusing on the way engineers and product designers work. SOLIDWORKS-certified workstations are essential to shorten product development time, reduce costs, and improve quality, so it’s critical to have a BOXX APEXX computer workstation purpose-built to optimize the software’s features and seamlessly run SOLIDWORKS without workflow bottlenecks.
Before you order your next workstation, read our ebook on "How to Configure Your SOLIDWORKS Workstation"
Design & Modeling
Selecting the number of processing cores in a SOLIDWORKS workstation is critical. SOLIDWORKS is a frequency bound application, meaning that it predominantly uses only one core. Since the frequency of that core determines performance more than any other variable, SOLIDWORKS recommended hardware with less cores (but higher frequency) is ideal. At BOXX, we performance tune our SOLIDWORKS workstations to 5.2GHz, providing you with the fastest, most productive SOLIDWORKS computer on the market. Contact one of our SOLIDWORKS performance specialists to custom-configure your ideal workstation.
Rendering & Simulation
Unlike modeling and design tasks, rendering and simulation are multi-threaded and take advantage of multiple CPU cores. However, performance gains level off after ten cores, so an ideal solution for SOLIDWORKS simulation is an overclocked, eight or ten- core APEXX workstation.
If you need to render your SOLIDWORKS assemblies, you have options, each with different compute requirements. SOLIDWORKS Visualize is a standalone, GPU-accelerated rendering tool based on NVIDIA® Iray®, so overclocked, multi-GPU APEXX workstations are ideal for this type of workflow. Many BOXX customers integrate CPU-based rendering tools like KeyShot into their workflows. In this scenario, you may require multiple CPU cores. Contact one of our SOLIDWORKS performance specialists to custom-configure your ideal workstation.
On the Go
Many engineers and product designers require mobility. Whether you work remotely or are constantly on the road, you need a SOLIDWORKS laptop capable of handling large assemblies. GoBOXX SLM is ultra-thin and light, featuring a fast Intel® Core™ i7 CPU, NVIDIA RTX GPU, and 64GB of RAM. If you need more laptop power, try GoBOXX MXL, a true desk side workstation replacement housing a desktop-class Intel® Core™ i7 or i9 CPU, professional NVIDIA graphics, and 64GB of RAM. Contact one of our SOLIDWORKS performance specialists to custom-configure your ideal workstation.
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