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MyrullSvamp
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Useless CAD performance on view

Hello

We have set up a pool that we hoped should handle light CAD.

Not drawing, just enough so that salespople and buyers coud open drawings in

Autodesk Design Review and DWG viewer (both 2013 versions) and rotate them.

As of now the rotating is a slideshow.

We watched a demo of some CAD programs running on view 1,5 year ago.

Do not remember what it was but It was not AutoCad, but nevertheless it was smoot and drawings looked complicated enough.

Pool settings are this:

Default Dispaly protocol = PCoIP

Allow users to change = no

Win7 3d Rendering = enable (configured with 128 MB vram)

Max monitors = 2

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Looks like the composer does the right ting with the VM:

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So is there any tricks to get decent performance on Design Review and DWGTrueview?

The programs are NOT thinapped, they are installed on the base-image.

Thanx.

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Phoenycks
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Your RAM allocation looks a bit slim - I might bump that to 4GB.

What's the OS you are using? What storage? How is the pool configured - Linked Clones? Persistent or Floating? Or are you using fully-provisioned clones (which would probably be best practice in this case)?

Thanks!

Jes

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MyrullSvamp
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Thanx for the answer.

Have tried 4 GB and 8 GB even, does not help anytying.

The desktop consumes about 1 GB druing the "stress test" with the drawing.

The drawing itself is a moderate complex 8 MB .dwfx file

We are using linked clones, where the base image is on a SSD storarage.

The rest is on a P4000 soulution (lefthand)

We use Dedicated assignment.

The OS is Windows 7 64bit. (Set up according to Optimization Guide for Windows7)

During the test we only use 1-2 desktops so the HOST and datastore is berly used.

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