Does Onshape run well on Surface Pro 5 (8gb ram)?

GG1

Anyone have experience using a Surface Pro 5 (or 6) with Onshape? I am not interested in the touchscreen aspects which I know don't work in the browser but I am just wondering with the graphics card and other specs if it runs it okay. I am considering it for my main computer but am a bit hesitant since it is considered a tablet and I don't associate those with being powerful enough for CAD.

john_mcclary

We use surface in the shop. I've opened and did limited edits there.

It was not a terrible experiance. But I wouldn't choose it over a laptop.

Depends mostly on the triangle/line count you are used to. If you have small models, you may never notice a slow down. But large machines will take a little longer to update. Or the rotation won't be super smooth.

I recomend opening your largest model on your current machine and roll it around, edit a couple features first in the tree. Also do a system check from the ? Menu.

Then go to the store and login to Onshape and do the same tests.

I tested out 10 laptops at bestbuy before I got the one I have.
They even opened the firewall and installed chrome on the display unit.

john_mcclary

We use surface in the shop. I've opened and did limited edits there.

It was not a terrible experiance. But I wouldn't choose it over a laptop.

Depends mostly on the triangle/line count you are used to. If you have small models, you may never notice a slow down. But large machines will take a little longer to update. Or the rotation won't be super smooth.

I recomend opening your largest model on your current machine and roll it around, edit a couple features first in the tree. Also do a system check from the ? Menu.

Then go to the store and login to Onshape and do the same tests.

I tested out 10 laptops at bestbuy before I got the one I have.
They even opened the firewall and installed chrome on the display unit.

GG1

That is a good idea to try it out at the store! With old CAD you can't bring your SW disk, install, and try it out. 

brucebartlett

Some of these machines have multiple graphics cards and the performance will be poor if low spec card is running for the browser. 

https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/webgl.htm

john_mcclary

Right, that is something you will need to force on a laptop with discrete card.

Most likely it will be an nVidia card. so here is the quick run down on setting that up.
Right click the desktop
go to the nvidia control panel
manage 3D settings
select program settings
choose the web browser (only 1 best buy employee let me install chrome, the others I needed to run edge)
then select "High-performance NVIDIA processor" as the preferred card.


Restart the browser and login it to Onshape and do a system check
It should say something like this under the renderer section: