I am about to go to college for engineering and they require a Windows laptop because of the software we will be using (mostly solidworks I’m pretty sure) doesn’t work on other operating systems. I primarily use windows day-to-day for gaming and such anyways so it’s not a problem for me but I’m wondering if anyone had experience using solidworks or any other industry-class CAD software like Inventor on linux

  • Valmond@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Matrix multiplications could be at least somehow multi threaded and few fields has been more optimized than displaying 3D. Do you mean simulations maybe?

    I would have thought they were done mostly on the GPU nowadays?

    • j4k3@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Open a .step file in a text editor and you’ll understand better. All the coordinates are calculated like they appear in a step file and they are mostly relative to each other.