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What's New with Inventor 2009 (Article 4)
April 2, 2008, 01:49 PM Garin Gardiner
The Power of 64-bit Inventor and Large Assembly Capacity
We all understand the importance of power. The bigger the load you have to drive the more power you need!
Today’s digital prototypes are larger and more complex than ever and Autodesk is investing heavily to give you the power you need.In the past five years, hard drive space and processor speed has increased five times over. The limiting factor has been RAM – the most 32-bit software applications could address was 4GB.
The 64-bit release of Inventor 2009 removes this limit, allowing users to use up to 128 GB of RAM! (OS limites, see table 1)
By installing Inventor 2009, all users – including those who remain with 32 bit systems – will experience improved performance. Both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Inventor have been optimized for the SSE2 technology found on all modern processors: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, and AMD Opteron. You can expect as much as a 15% improvement in overall performance.
Table 1
I have had a few questions already concerning how to get a 64 bit version of 2009. If you have received 2009, you already have it! We look at your OS when we install Inventor and if you have a 64 bit version of Windows (XP 64 or Vista 64) we automatically install the 64 bit version on that machine - easy as that. I have been using the 64 bit version for a while and can tell you there are MANY things I can do with the 64 bit version that I can't do on my 32 bit machine.
Enjoy all of those large assemblies now!
Garin
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