Welcome PROFESSIONAL HARDWARE: THE KEY TO SUCCESS FOR 3D DESIGN – PART 1 –

Some GoToWebinar Tips  Use the orange arrow button to display or hide the options panel.  Use blue maximize button for best resolution.  All attendees are on mute.  Enter questions into the Questions pane at any time.  We will answer questions after the main presentation.

Today’s Presenter Jeffrey Rowe Mechanical CAD consultant, instructor, and writer Professional Hardware: The Key to Success for 3D Design, Part 1

Design Engineering Today is All About Multi-Tasking To meet demands, you need the right combination of professional software and hardware.

Three Levels of Multi-Tasking “Professional Grade” Tools Good: Casual modeling and document viewing needs; work on creating smaller parts, assemblies, and drawings. Could benefit from using two monitors. Better: Run SolidWorks more often and create medium to larger parts, assemblies, and drawings; occasional rendering and simulation work. Could benefit from using three monitors for integrating workflow. Best: Full-time SolidWorks users who create large assemblies and drawings; frequent rendering and simulation work. Could benefit from using four or more monitors for an immersive experience.

Professional Grade 3D Design Software SolidWorks 2011

SolidWorks Visualization Rendering photorealistic models requires real computing power.

SolidWorks Simulation Technology Simulation can be a computationally intensive task that requires a powerful CPU and GPU working together for maximum results.

SolidWorks Sustainability SolidWorks Sustainability helps you choose the best material for your model.

Professional Grade Workstations from Dell Professional grade engineering workstations have many advantages over commodity/consumer grade computers, including higher levels of performance, scalability, and certified applications.

Dell Precision Desktop Workstations Dell Precision workstations provide a highly scalable, cost-effective architecture with performance capabilities that can optimize your workflow

Dell Precision Mobile Workstations The Dell Precision M6500 offers scalability, expandability, flexibility, and performance — as well as mobility.

Professional Grade Graphics Cards: ATI FirePro from AMD

AMD Eyefinity Technology Multi-Monitor Configurations AMD Eyefinity technology is supported in all new ATI FirePro professional graphics cards from AMD

Professional Grade Operating System 64-bit Windows 7 breaks the 4GB memory RAM barrier

Get Professional It’s Time To Upgrade to “Professional Grade”! Upgrading to “Professional Grade” tools from AMD, Dell, and DS SolidWorks will ensure that your hardware and software maximize your design engineering efforts.

Q&A Panel Dell Patrick Hannan, Senior Manager Strategic Market Development, Precision Workstations Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Shantanu Kedar, Partner Technical Marketing Manager AMD Allen Bourgoyne, ATI FirePro, Director, Software Engineering, Workstation Graphics

For More Information Resources & Promotions from AMD Dell SolidWorks See also: ATI FirePro Professional Graphics Cards from AMD SolidWorks Dell Precision Workstations

Thank You For more information about our webcast series: A recording of today’s presentation will be available here within 24 hours. Register for Part 2 on February 17, 2011 Join us a week from today for a deeper dive into today’s topic by another great panel of experts, who will also be on hand to answer specific questions about how to optimize hardware to support your software implementation. your feedback and suggestions to: