The Need for Fast Machines for CAD Services

Imagine if you owned a Ferrari and one day someone said, “Why are you driving such a slow car?”

Well, something similar happened to us yesterday. It wasn’t a Ferrari, it was a Pentium 4 PC (3Ghz + 2GB RAM) that we had bought new a year and a half ago, and which we thought was pretty fast for the task.

Our best customer, who was French and had been working with us in Chennai for 10 months told us just before leaving, “That machine needs to be upgraded, it’s too slow.”

We were perplexed, because the configuration we bought is what had been recommended by the customer’s customer… anyway, that really didn’t matter, because indeed, the machine behaved slowly when it was performing its 3D engineering design task using Bentley MicroStation and its PlantSpace plugin. (The task was esigning HVAC for a monster cruise liner.)

So now we’re out to beef up the performance of our CAD services by pulling in a Core 2 Quad processor and a couple of Gigs of RAM. If this doesn’t solve the problem, we don’t know WHAT will!

Have a great day,

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A Cardiovascular Modeling Expert on Our Radio Show!

We had a spectacular guest on our Engineering, Architecture and CAD radio show: a PhD from MIT.

He’s Dr. Thomas Heldt, a researcher in cardiovascular modeling from that distinguished university. In our 30-minute segment, he describes how he solved a perplexing problem for NASA: astronauts fainting soon after they returned from space and tried to stand up.

Related in simple-to-understand, fascinating terms, this episode is a tale of the scientific tradition and the academic expertise of MIT.

Listen to it here.

Enjoy the show,

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How to Minimize Your Risk When Using CAD Services

You’ve done your due diligence and homed in on a particular CAD services provider. You have told them what you want done, and they have quickly sent you a quote for $1200. They are asking for a deposit of 50%.

$600 isn’t chump change. You are shuddering at the thought of how you would feel if the money vanished without the drawings appearing.

So how do you minimize the risk of this happening?

Very simple. It’s the entire assignment consists of a set of, say, 14 drawings, you ask them to produce only one of them and quote you for only that one instead of the whole set!

In that case your deposit will be only 50% of the price of one drawing, which will be much less, maybe around $50.

Don’t be afraid that this will scare them away; smart CAD services are keen, like any other business, to acquire new customers and will be happy to oblige you.

And, of course, if you are happy with the one drawing, you can ask them to create another installment of drawings. The size of the second installment can be fixed depending on how much trust you have developed in the provider during the course of the first assignment.

If the small first assignment, on the other hand, resulted in a nasty experience, then your loss is minimal. Also remember that in exchange for the money you lost, you gained in experience. Specifically, you now know the signs of a bad CAD services provider.

Using the above method, outsourcing your drafting to a CAD services provider need no longer be a perilous experience!

Enjoy your design life,

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