Neither ZDNET nor the author are compensated for these independent reviews. This helps support our work, but does not affect what we cover or how, and it does not affect the price you pay. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. To submit your data, click SUBMIT BENCHMARK below and fill in the form! We hope to see a bunch of data from all over so we can get an idea of what computers really do perform the best in Fusion 360.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. Note the time in seconds - this is your Render test input number. My machines took roughly 7-11 minutes to finish this. Drag the slider at the bottom right to 'Final' (This admittedly has faults, shoot for 3000 pixels wide x 1700 tall) In the render space, look in the browser tree open up 'Named Views.' Maximize your Fusion window (on the device itself if applicable) and minimize the cloud rendering box at the bottom. On Mac, I don’t know of a comparable app 🤔. This is a good full-out test of your CPU's processing power.įor Windows you can use this free software, Sizer to set your Fusion window to 3000x1700. At the time of publishing this video, Fusion 360 has only used CPU for rendering. We've sorted the results if you skip it to still be beneficial.Īfter noting those results, head over to the render space. You can skip Steep & Shallow, but it is a good test.

I recommend doing each operation at least twice and averaging the results as they tend to have a smaller deviation.ĭo the CAM generation in order from top to bottom. You'll see 'Generation Completed in a number of seconds.” This is the number you'll want to take note of to submit in our survey. You should see a log, find your toolpath and double-click it to open the results.

Also, CTRL+L or CMD+L will open this log window. When that's finished, click the Task Manager - I pinned it to the toolbar. To do that right-click on each one and click Generate - also CTRL or CMD+G with one toolpath selected will generate.

Right-click inside the new window and turn off the selection, 'Auto Remove.' Close that window, we'll be back here in a bit.Ĭlick Utilities at the top and then on the left turn off the 'Automatic In-Process Stock Generation.' Note: For accurate results kill all your other apps so they don't eat any of your processing power. You'll need to change a few settings to make grab the processing time.

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