Re: Dedicated CAD computer?

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:10:05 GMT, "James H" <x@xxxxx> wrote:

Hi Mike,

When you specify a DirectX9.0c graphics card make sure it supports shader
model 3.0. You will then be able to utilise the accelerated graphics in the
PCB editor of Altium Designer release 6.3. Here is the info about it:
http://www.altium.com/Evaluate/DEMOcenter/AltiumDesignerNewFeatures/HardwareAcceleratedGraphicsEngine/

Cheers,
James

Oh I see what they are doing. Instead of triangulating the rounded
ends of the tracks they are using pixel shaders to do it.
Performance-wise probably a little faster than my method as much more
work is offloaded to the GPU but I dunno...I think I prefer my method
of triangulation as it works on the cheapst 19.95 video card as long
as it supports DX9.0c and therefore has a much broader spectrum of
compatability.

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