Monty Roberts wrote:

Rhino has come down in price! Only $795 now. I haven't looked at the

site

in a while. I know some of you are thinking ONLY $795!!! Is this guy

nuts?

You have to understand that until the last 3 or four years to get this

kind

of capability, you were going to spend well over $20K, just on the
software!!! The hardware could be as much or more! Now with dual gig
processors and the like, plus the ELSA graphics cards, you can get a

really

awesome workstation for less than $3K if you build it yourself. It is
getting to where the amateur designer can have access to some truly
professional stuff! (and no I don't get paid in any way by Rhino, but I

do

have an interest in seeing them succeed, because I like their product so
much). The only thing missing from my bag of tricks is a good FEA

package.

Does anybody out there know of a good less than $1000 FEA package?

Monty


Monty Roberts
RMI
1795 Berry St.
Fayetteville, AR 72701
tmrbrts@swbell.net

George Lendich wrote:

Monty
How big a processor do you have to have to run this.

George (down under)

I would say minimum of P2 450 MHz. Decent graphics card, and 128 meg of ram.

Better would be a new 1 Ghz machine with 256-512 meg of ram something like
an ELSA GLORIA II video card.

I started out running it on an overclocked celeron 300a and it ran pretty
well at 300 MHz, better at 450. I now run it on a dual P3 800 with 256 meg
of ram. It is way overkill with Rhino. I need the power for the other design
packages I run (I also need to add some ram while it is so cheap :-). They
designed Rhino to run on a typical machine, so as long as you don't have
some old Pentium 90 or something, I think you would be fine. It would just
be a little slow on really big files. The new machines are so powerful and
cheap now, if you have one of those old machines I would look at upgrading.
At least here in the states, you can get used machines in the 600-700 Mhz
range for dirt cheap.

Monty

 
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