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ZeroLengthCurve  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:31:51 PM(UTC)
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After all the ballyhoo about the greatness and oooo-ahhhs over the heralding of 64-bits, I am kinda disappointed that multi-threading/multi-processes did not arrive in this way to CAD:

-- Ability to rotate/pan/orbit/zoom a model that is in the process of being saved. The user just sits, wasting time, when a model save exceeds 2 minutes. At least we could be exploring the model in a non-editing way while awaiting the disk writes.

-- Ability to edit the model when the save is taking forever. If the edits are cached and awaiting the completion of a save, then at least the user is able to "feel" productive.

Does anyone else have any ideas that in theory could be possible if 64-bit stuff were to be imaginatively exploited?

Ed: Added the fol:

Ability to terminate a save in process or abort it but receive an option top preserve layer names/states and just chuck the remaining processes (for when a geometry change seems unwilling to complete in a user-expected time frame)...
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memphisjed  
#2 Posted : Saturday, January 25, 2014 7:20:17 PM(UTC)
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I think one 64 bit multicore bonus would be to save to one drive while working, and allow you to continue to work with the other cores and the faster drive on your computer.
I would like to know if 2 video cards will be used in cad in the forseable future. It appears Apple is betting a lot on this with the new Mac Pro.
That is software and hardware ergonomics - above my pay grade.
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