Hardware

[changrilla]

Hi. I have fairly basic computer, W7, single core, 3GHz + Nvidia graphics card, 4G memory. It takes something like 12min to export some of my models to stl. If I could cut this down 50% by upgrading hardware I'd do it. Is that sort of performance improvement possible?

Cheers

Gordon

[ggaliens]

It is never a great idea to upgrade hardware to overcome what could be a software technical issue if for any reason the STL exporter should by itself ... be the source of poor performance.

You would really settle for a 50% improvement ?

If you can or would trust me to TEST EXPORT your models to see what I think about performance ... I'd at least try to see what's going on. But you might need to keep models confidential. You could always do a deform crumple before you send to me. LOL. It's topology that prob matters here ... not precise geometry.

There must be some way someone can do a sanity check for you before you spend $$$.

[changrilla]

Thanks if you don't mind taking a look http://www.mgcsoft.com/junk/RestEasy_FB2...0001.wings could you let me know when you've got it please.

Cheers

Gordon

[micheus]

Just testing here in my settings and sharing the numbers (i7-4770K 3.50ghz [4th generation] - 4 cores with HT enabled).

It took me around 2':10" - 2':50" (multiple tests). The processor usage by Erl.exe was ~15% with basically one core working and 25MB of memory payload.

[changrilla]

Hmm, thanks Micheus. Looks like it's time for an upgrade Though if there's only one core really doing any work it can't be just down to the processor speed as it isn't /that/ much faster.

Cheers

Gordon

[dgud]

3:30 with an old i5-2500K (4Gz says windows)

[changrilla]

Thanks. It'll have to wait fro now but I clearly need to upgrade my PC.

Cheers

Gordon