AutoCad, Safe, SAP, ETABS

[Shayan Davoodi]

Hello people.
I am a civil and construction engineer so I need apps like AutoCAD (2D) , SAP, SAFE and ETABS to work with. Is surface 3 able to handle it?

I checked AutoCAD forums and realized that the CPU meets the technologies that cad requires like SSE2 but I don't know if I can really work on it or not. I mean if it is smooth and fast enough or not.

Anyone tried it?

 

[neo158]

It should be able to handle it but don't try anything too demanding otherwise you are likely to have performance issues. You have to remember that the Atom, as good as the newer versions may be, will never have the processing power of a Core i5 or i7.

 

[noersetiawan]

Hello people.
I am a civil and construction engineer so I need apps like AutoCAD (2D) , SAP, SAFE and ETABS to work with. Is surface 3 able to handle it?

I checked AutoCAD forums and realized that the CPU meets the technologies that cad requires like SSE2 but I don't know if I can really work on it or not. I mean if it is smooth and fast enough or not.

Anyone tried it?

I have an old Compaq laptop with Intel Pentium and 2 GB RAM run Acad 2014 (2D usage only), no performance issue, so, yes. I don't know about the other programs.

 

[fatclue_98]

Hello people.
I am a civil and construction engineer so I need apps like AutoCAD (2D) , SAP, SAFE and ETABS to work with. Is surface 3 able to handle it?

I checked AutoCAD forums and realized that the CPU meets the technologies that cad requires like SSE2 but I don't know if I can really work on it or not. I mean if it is smooth and fast enough or not.

Anyone tried it?

AutoCAD and Revit will run just fine with the i7 CPU in the Surface Pro 3. If you're only doing 2D you might want to try on the autocad360 website first. Page rendering may be a tad slower than the program but AutoCAD is a resource hog (battery-killer).

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[neo158]

AutoCAD and Revit will run just fine with the i7 CPU in the Surface Pro 3. If you're only doing 2D you might want to try on the autocad360 website first. Page rendering may be a tad slower than the program but AutoCAD is a resource hog (battery-killer).

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There's an AutoCAD 360 app on the store which will be much quicker than the website.

 

[fatclue_98]

There's an AutoCAD 360 app on the store which will be much quicker than the website.

Used it, uninstalled it. It's a sad excuse for a CAD app. It's a minimal viewer at best. Can't even pull dimensions or load X-Refs.

 

[fatclue_98]

Oh, and before anybody brings up the iOS or Android versions of AutoCAD 360, they're marginally useful due to underpowered CPUs on mobile devices, but a TON better than the Windows offering. To Microsoft's credit, you can work on the autocad360.com website via IE on Windows Phone but not Android or iOS. Their mobile browsers redirect you to their respective app stores. Small win for Windows.

Sent From An Ancient Motion Computing LE1700 On Windows 8.1 Pro.

 

[ng4ever]

Thanks I was really wondering about this!

 

[neo158]

Used it, uninstalled it. It's a sad excuse for a CAD app. It's a minimal viewer at best. Can't even pull dimensions or load X-Refs.

Even so, an app is still faster than a website and whenever I've used any Autodesk web apps it was a painful experience.

 

[fatclue_98]

Fewer Microsoft fans on this forum than me but I gotta tell you, the 360 app for Windows is really bad. To put it another way, I use the web app on an XP machine with a single-core Pentium processor and 1 gig of RAM and it does the job very well. The web app has all the editing tools you need and you upload the files once and forget about it. It's no substitute for the desktop version but if you're out in the field, it's a lifesaver and it plays nice with files created on AutoCAD 2014.

I can't speak for other Autodesk programs since I haven't used them but the online CAD is much more feature-filled than any mobile version. Plus, it's free.

Sent From An Ancient Motion Computing LE1700 On Windows 8.1 Pro.