SolidWorks – Improve 3D CAD Design with Quadro Graphics Cards

ANNOUNCING NVIDIA MAXIMUS
Quadro Workstations with the new NVIDIA Maximus technology provides SolidWorks users with even greater graphics and computational performance than ever before. You get incredibly fast and surprisingly cost efficient ways to perform accurate CAE simulations while still working in SolidWorks. All right at your desktop with no loss in performance.

As always, all NVIDIA professional graphics solutions are certified and tested by SolidWorks and NVIDIA, so they'll work perfectly from day one.

For more information, visit our Maximus workstation page.

REALIZE HUGE PERFORMANCE GAINS

As shown in the chart below, you will realize substantial performance gains by upgrading from previous generations of Quadro solutions. These results were obtained by running industry accepted standard graphics benchmark tests (SPECViewperf 11) for SolidWorks. View the side-by-side video comparing new to previous generations.

Simulation allows you to discover misaligned parts while still in the design phase.

CERTIFIED AND RECOMMENDED NVIDIA GPUS

Quadro 5000
2.5 GB
352 CUDA Cores

Quadro 4000
2 GB
256 CUDA Cores

Quadro 2000
1 GB
192 CUDA Cores

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SolidWorks 2011 performance drivers
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USE EDRAWINGS IN STEREOSCOPIC 3D

A little known fact about the most popular SolidWorks add-in, eDrawings, is that it works in 3D! Everyone knows how valuable eDrawings is for sharing native SolidWorks files for design or marketing reviews. But, imagine the amount of detail that can be displayed in stereoscopic 3D to really give your customers and managers the true representation of your design.

Learn how to enable this feature with a Quadro professional graphics solution and NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Pro.

SUPERIOR, REAL-TIME PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING

For the most remarkable, life-like models in a fraction of the time, Quadro professional solutions accelerate Bunkspeed SHOT™ Pro. SHOT Pro is an interactive ray-tracing application that harnesses the immense processing power of the NVIDIA GPU. With an amazingly easy-to-use intuitive interface, SHOT Pro quickly and accurately simulates the physical world, so you don't have to. By easily integrating with SolidWorks Standard or Premium, you get a seamless workflow from design to photorealistic imagery without any data loss.

Bunkspeed SHOT integrates into SolidWorks for a seamless workflow.

Creating and sharing photorealistic models has never been easier or faster. Whether rendered on your local machine or in the private or public cloud, SHOT Pro with Quadro professional solutions enable it all. Click for more information about Bunkspeed SHOT Pro and the Bunkspeed Cloud Solution.

Compare new versus previous generation Quadro solutions.

ENHANCED IMAGE QUALITY WITHIN SOLIDWORKS

Unlike consumer gaming cards, Quadro professional graphics solutions enable RealView and full scene antialiasing (FSAA). With RealView and Quadro, your 3D models quickly come to life and interact with their environments. You can assign various appearances and scenes, change materials, textures or surroundings and your model will instantly appear the way a real world item should. By enabling FSAA, jagged edges are removed from contours of geometries for smoother, more realistic models. Which means, with Quadro under the hood, you'll get the highest quality, most realistic images.

Standard 3D Mode (Realview, FSAA turned off)
Image is void of real-world reflections and textures. Jagged edges are visible.

Enhanced 3D Mode (Realview, FSAA turned on)
A more realistic and detailed model. Shadows, reflections and textures appear as they would in real life, edges are smoother.

WHICH QUADRO IS RIGHT FOR ME?

QUADRO SOLUTION	Quadro 5000	Quadro 4000	Quadro 2000
SolidWorks Usage	Large assemblies with complex parts	Large assemblies with simple parts Small assemblies with complex parts	Small/medium assemblies with simple parts
GPU Memory	2.5 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	1 GB GDDR5
Replaces	Quadro FX 4800 Quadro FX 4600	Quadro FX 3800 Quadro FX 3700 Quadro FX 3500	Quadro FX 1800 Quadro FX 1700 Quadro FX 1500

BUILT FOR PROFESSIONALS

Quadro professional graphics solutions are engineered, built, and tested by NVIDIA to provide the highest standards of quality for maximum system uptime. Delivering industry leading performance and capabilities, Quadro solutions are backed by an extended three (3) year warranty to ensure your system's reliability. With advanced support for a multiple display environment, you can view more content to boost productivity. In addition, with robust features, including unified driver architecture and NVIDIA® nView® display management software, Quadro solutions offer IT departments an easy to deploy and manage solution.

It's no wonder that nine out of ten CAD users choose Quadro for their workstations.

*SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECviewperf® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of August 16th, 2010. The comparison presented above is based on standard industry workstations representative of when each particular graphics product was launched. n, n-1: Resolution of 1900 x 1200, Windows Win 7, 64 Bit, System 1P XEON 3.3GHz, 6GB Memory. n-2: Resolution of 1900 x 1200, WinXP x64, 1x 3GHz Core2 Quad (QX9650) 4GB. For the latest SPECviewperf® benchmark results, visit www.spec.org/gwpg.