would anyone advise or know of desktop computer specifications required for full support of Freecad.
I'm modeling on a laptop that keeps up for awhile and then breaks down and halts progress in an unpredictable state. I've tried several laptops with different results, some can get farther into a model. The specs for this laptop and Freecad's help ' about ' are posted below.
The PC would be used mostly for Freecad, Kicad, and Blender, a CAM package like Cura, perhaps a CNC control like EMC.
I'd rather use an AMD cpu motherboard but am uncertain about a video card ( Radeon / Nvidia ) and RAM size and type. I've read that a Solidworks box requirements are sufficient; 32 GB of ram is minimum, or possibly double that. My present OS is Linux mint. Maybe there's a better linux distro. I've tried 2 other Freecad versions, and switch between them often, including Realthunder, with varying results.
Specs are below, thanks for your time reading this, any replies are welcome and
cheers,
Denis
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about this freecad version:
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OS: Linux Mint 21 (X-Cinnamon/cinnamon)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.1.29410 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20.1)
Hash: f5d13554ecc7a456fb6e970568ae5c74ba727563
Python 3.10.5, Qt 5.15.4, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
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about this Lenova Idea pad laptop specs:
-Computer-
Processor : AMD A12-9720P RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G
-Processors-
Package Information
AMD A12-9720P RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G 0 0:0 2700.00 MHz
AMD A12-9720P RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G 1 0:1 2700.00 MHz
AMD A12-9720P RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G 2 0:2 2700.00 MHz
AMD A12-9720P RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G 3 0:3 2700.00 MHz
Memory : 7509MB (1632MB used)
Machine Type : Notebook
Operating System : Linux Mint 21
User Name : denis (denis)
Date/Time : Tue 24 Jan 2023 11:57:46 AM PST
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : AMD Radeon R7 Graphics (carrizo, LLVM 13.0.1, DRM 3.42, 5.15.0-56-generic)
-Memory-
MemTotal Total Memory 7509388 KiB
MemFree Free Memory 4304552 KiB
MemAvailable 5743008 KiB
Buffers 83020 KiB
Cached 1578020 KiB
SwapCached Cached Swap 0 KiB
Active 696800 KiB
Inactive 2102208 KiB
Active(anon) 1984 KiB
Inactive(anon) 1180404 KiB
Active(file) 694816 KiB
Inactive(file) 921804 KiB
-SCSI Disks-
ATA Samsung SSD 860
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUE0N