CAD over remote desktop

jwest · 27 Sep 2013 at 12:17

Anyone ever done this? mostly 2D work but will be doing some 3D. will it be horrendous?

Cheers

joey1211 · 27 Sep 2013 at 12:18

On a LAN or broadband connection?
I've tried using InDesign via RDP on a 4Mb conneciton. Not good. You can turn the pictures off in InDesign to save on bandwidth if working on text. Possibly something similar in your software?

jwest · 27 Sep 2013 at 13:04

Over broadband, using autocad

bledd · 27 Sep 2013 at 13:47

I wouldn't use Paint over RDP

KIA · 27 Sep 2013 at 13:53

Forget it.

Simian · 28 Sep 2013 at 07:29

For Your information, AutoCAD will allow a "Stand alone" licence version to be installed in 2 locations, as long as you do not run them concurrently!

I tried running over RDP on my Infinity Broadband (65Meg) but it was bottle necked at the office end! and like wading through treacle!!

So I have the Product Design Suite installed at my office in Uxbridge and at Home 75 miles away in Swindon. both are registered with the same Licence! all legal and approved by Autodesk as, obviously, I can't run them concurrently (at least not easily).

asim18 · 28 Sep 2013 at 07:46

Would be fine over a LAN where sub 1ms pings are achievable. Over the internet it will be horrendous, you wont get much work done as you'll end up rage quitting pretty soon.

KIA · 28 Sep 2013 at 12:24

asim18 said:
Would be fine over a LAN where sub 1ms pings are achievable. Over the internet it will be horrendous, you wont get much work done as you'll end up rage quitting pretty soon.

It's just as bad. We've tried it.

jwest · 28 Sep 2013 at 14:14

oh well, cheers. I would install in 2 locations but my laptop isn't really powerful enough

Simian · 28 Sep 2013 at 15:08

Whats the Spec??

My PC at home is actually less powerful than my PC at work (AMD Llano Quad Core compared to a Xeon 8 Core at work) but it runs quite smoothly here no probs!

jwest · 28 Sep 2013 at 17:44

i3, 3gb ram and some integrated vga, i think its an hp G67, not tried acad on it, perhaps ill give it a whirl

Simian · 30 Sep 2013 at 06:46

Give it a try! you might be surprised!

I used to run it on a Celeron Dual Core Laptop with 4Gb RAM and an Nvidia Intergrated Graphics of some sort... Ran quite smoothly!, even Inventor Ran on it!!

spoffle · 30 Sep 2013 at 06:53

KIA said:
It's just as bad. We've tried it.

It depends on your network. I can run photoshop nicely over RDP on a gigabit network.

paradigm · 1 Oct 2013 at 09:36

spoffle said:
It depends on your network. I can run photoshop nicely over RDP on a gigabit network.

Was going to say. I regularly RDP to a server running RemoteFX and I can even run through a 3DMark benchmark on it, or play a game!

It's easily possible to get a good experience over RDP, but it's unlikely for most people!

gord · 1 Oct 2013 at 10:47

The problem I find with remote design is that the screen draw is often inaccurate. So you could have perfect latency, but it still won't render the view properly. It's not completely gone but things like missing rules etc make it unproductive. Application dependent.

Simian · 1 Oct 2013 at 11:27

Hence my suggestion to, as is allowed by AutoDesk, install on a second device!!