I found VHS’s copy of Solidworks locked in the VHS Admin filing cabinet, where it was suppose to be, and always has been. So in the event you can’t find it please check this locker. In case someone is under the impression Dallas has it, that isn’t true.
@laftho went threw the process of installing Solidworks on the machine so everything should be functioning.
The original Solidworks machine was a computer I brought in for VHS. It was my watercooled AMD fx-8120 8 core, on a gigabyte 990fx-ud3, with 32gb of ram, a quadro 4000 and 4x 60gb SSDs. It had my personal copy of Windows 8 as well.
I brought it in to the space for people to use, and installed VHS’s copy of Solidworks on it. Prior to bringing it in I formatted it so the machine was pretty fresh and snappy. During the move people were asked to bring their stuff home, so I brought the computer back home.
Although the machine was used by many, it was never really used to its full potential. It is one hell of a machine and I went a little overkill on the thing. So I decided to hold onto it and replace it with the current one.
The current one is another one of mine (Or @JohnC 's, we both brought in similar machines). It’s a Intel Q6600 quadcore on an Asus p5k motherboard, with 8gb of ram. It has a 128gb ssd (JohnC’s) and a Geforce 460GTX 1gb (@RobertButterworth’s), and 2 500gb HDD (random space donations, mdadm raid1 {toss the drive in, mount /dev/md/raid1 /mnt, the backup image should be here /mnt/sda-of-vhs-solidworks-machine.img} ), a 80gb drive (ubuntu), and a 320gb hdd (clone of the old solidworks machine {/mnt/sda-of-vhs-solidworks-machine.img})…
I did a bios mod to the geforce 460gtx and it’s recognized as a Quadro 4000m, which greatly benefits solidworks. Its on par with the real Quadro 4000 I had in there.
I had brought it to the space, backed up the SSD onto the 500GB and did a clean install of my personal windows 8. My intention was to install Solidworks on there and transfer everything back but I’ve been reluctant to do so.
I’m sure everyone has noticed there hasn’t been any computers set up. I’ve been unmotivated and hesitant about doing it. Same goes with the servers, which runs a voip server so we can have multiple phones.
I know two people have been pushing me to get the solidworks machine up, and I’ve been getting their slowly. To be honest my slow progress was not due to a lack of appreciate or anything like that. I’ve been reluctant to set up the desktop computers, the server so all the phones work, and the Solidworks machine because of the feedback I receive. Posts like this are the primary reasons I haven’t been motivated to do anything about it.
As for the hostility directed towards me I feel like I’ve done my due diligence here. I understand that @funvill is mostly upset because I’m shooting down his proposals. I’ve actively tried to make compromises and I’ve tried working with him but he’s been uncooperative and combative as such.
The backup of the solidworks machine is still there on the 500gb harddrive. I restored the backup onto a 320gb harddrive that I tossed in the computer, and I even got it boot. However someones managed to install a virus on the solid works machine already. It’ll probably need to be revisited but I’ll leave that to someone else.
If anyone else needs more information about the solidworks machine feel free to PM me.
@funvill, I’d appreciate it you would stop. This is no good for VHS.
Same team dude. same team.