Antialiasing 2dwireframe slow response

BricsCAD is not optimized for Quadro cards, or more accurate there and no Quadro drivers specific for BricsCAD as there are for AutoCAD, Solidworks etc. so BricsCAD does not use the full capabilities of the Quadro card.

If you are using a desktop computer (i.e. not laptop) and you do not need the card to be a Quadro card you may want to swap it with a more recent Geforce RTX card or a midrange Nvidia RTX card (the successor to the Quadro) if you need the Quadro functionality. The P200o is not a really powerful card these days, it being some 8 years old.

That being said, it could still be a driver issue and you may want to check at the Nvidia website if there is a more recent driver (it is currently at version 580 when I do a quick look)

The software you intend to use usually have a graphics cards supported list some where.

Found this

https://files.solidworks.com/videocarddriver/patches/Release_Notes_Graphics_Support_Patch.txt?_gl=1*1nzavwm*_ga*MjU0MDE2Mzg3LjE3NTU1NzY0ODA.*_ga_XQJPQWHZHH*czE3NTU1NzY0NzkkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTU1NzY0ODEkajYwJGwwJGgw*_gcl_au*NTM2ODU2ODMxLjE3NTU1NzY0ODI.

AutoCAD, Solidworks etc. also works fine on GeForce and equivalent AMD graphics cards.

Quadro/RTX and their AMD counterpart require special drivers tailored to the CAD (or other) software to make the most out of these cards, assuming the software will actually use those capabilities of the Quadro/RTX cards. The GPUs are often the same as for the high(er) end consumer graphics cards. Unless you realý need the advanced options of the Quadro/RTX cards you are probably better off with a GeForce card.

When you look at the price/raw performance ratio a GeForce card might make more sense if you do no need a Quadro. I.e. for the same amount of money the GeForce card generally has a faster GPU and has more VRAM.

Some CAD programs actually work better on a regular graphics card than on a Quadro/RTX card when there are no specific Quadro/RTX drivers for that CAD program.

@Jim78b On another note, did you file a support request for this issue? It could be a BricsCAD specific bug that you are running into.

E.g. a long time ago I had to make 3D renders in AutoCAD and it took about an hour per render. Then after two renders I loaded the same DWG 3D model into Vectorworks and it took 5 minutes per render and had a much better render quality than AutoCAD on the same machine without having made any changes to the DWG file (i.e. no optimazations etc, just using the Vectorworks default settings). So I did all the renders in Vectorworks. Sometimes it is not the hardware that is the issue.

When you say that AutoCAD is faster, how much faster are we talking about, e.g. 10 times faster as in my example above or e.g. 10% or 20% faster?

Maybe I am stating something you already know but will mention it for the sake of being complete

With nVidia GeForce graphics cards the first two digits indicate which generation of cards it is and the latter two digits are an indication for the kind of performance to expect.

E.g. GeForce RTX 4050 is the previous generation entrance GPU and the GeForce RTX 5050 is the current generation entrance GPU and they should not be considered for most CAD work unless it is light to moderate 2D work.

The minimum you should get is a xx60 (super) GPU of the current or previous generation and are sufficient for 2D and not to extreme 3D, in most cases the xx70 or xx70 Super/Ti would be the sweet spot between price and performance for CAD.

The xx80 and xx90 versions would be suitable for very heavy 3D work etc. but are costly, consume also a lot of power and generally speaking produce quite a bit more heat as well that may cause GPU and CPU to throttle their speed to reduce the heat, unless you heave really good cooling.

This all assuming they will not change the naming convention in the near future.

For Bricscad yes.

If you are mainly using Apps supporting or some even mandatory demanding Pro GPUs (Catia, Autodesk, ProE ?, …), their Drivers can really accelerate certain tasks and offer better stability. Where a relatively cheap Pro Card from AMD or Nvidia can outperform the highest Gaming GPUs and it may be worth to go with these.
But most other CADs (Microstation, Vectorworks, …..) work best and recommend standard Gaming GPUs with their current Gaming or Studio Drivers. So basically an affordable current Gaming PC with enough memory may be a very good CAD station, at least for the bang of the buck. And an expensive Workstation may be outdated after 2-3 years anyway.

As said in the post above, not sure if that will solve all issues in Bricscad with your project. Maybe there is a lot of potential in File optimization. But from the hardware specs, for me it, with overall speed increases, it looks also promising.

If you're VISUALSTYLE = 2dWireframe, then you're not using the Redway engine, this is only used for rendered visual styles.

A few things to check:

• Make sure ANTIALIASSCREEN = 1. If it's set to a higher value it can have a big impact on performance.
• If you are working with drawings that have Images/PDF attached, then it is important that IMAGEDISKCACHE = 1 (is on). If it's off it will impact on performance.
• Set your graphics to High performance. Per BricsCAD System Requirements go into Windows Graphics Settings and:

1. Pick the Add desktop app button.
2. Browse for the BricsCAD app.
3. Set the GPU preference to High Performance.

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts Ltd

cadconcepts.co.nz

Not necessarily, it depends on the base (= default) clock speed and the maximum turbospeed it is capable of.

e.g. an i7 with a base clock speed of 4.2 GHz will perform faster than an i9 with a base clock speed of 3.8 GHz until the turbospeed gets activated, then the maximum turbospeed may make the difference if there as a large difference. BricsCAD may not use all cores, as most CAD processes are still single core because of the serial nature of commands, it is with rendering etc. where the multiple cores will start to make a difference. Some background processes may be run by another core but Bricsys should be able to tell more clearly what is using more than one core.

To make it more complex, most modern Intel processors have power cores and efficiency cores (weaker cores that use less power). You may want to check on that as well before deciding on getting an i7 or an i9 depending on your usage scenario.

There is a trend to offload display rendering and 3D rendering to the GPU as much as possible, some CAD programs are further on that than others, perhaps @Lyubov Osina could give some more information on where BricsCAD stands at the moment.

As @zoomer already mentioned, like I also said, it may not be necessary to get a Quadro/RTX card unless you are using software that can take full advantage of them when doing 3D etc. that would benefit from it.

Given what you said you are doing in CAD it sounds like that you might be equally or better off with a lower cost good GeForce xx60 or xx70 (super/Ti) instead of a more expensive Quadro/RTX card for basically the same performance.(xx = 40 or 50)