will tinkercad render/run faster with a 6 + core processor?

[ExoMale]

got my hands on a 3D printer few weeks ago, but only this week have i been looking at 3D software to create my own stuff and so i have been using tinkercad which im happy to stick to, but wouldnt mind it running better/faster if thats even an option. i use it via browser not any app if there is one.

i didnt end up selling my laptop, so that is what im using, but i am willing to change for a less gaming orientated workhorse if need be as i barely game on it. 4c8t is good, but in the long run it might be better to upgrade maybe.

 

[LePhuronn]

I very much doubt TinkerCAD in a browser is multithreaded, unless the devs have put in a lot of work using web workers and similar parallel techniques. So you're going to want fast single thread performance, not more cores.

However, if you're doing relatively simple stuff for yourself, save yourself the headache and get Fusion 360. It's free for hobbyists and despite a lot of the petulant nerfing Autodesk have done to it recently, it's still incredibly powerful. Depends entirely on how much you despise cloud storage, and some pre- and post-processing operations are done in the cloud too.

Personally doesn't bother me, and my 6700K still chugs along nicely with some pretty intricate projects. Rendering is slow as balls though when I start incorporating lights and highly reflective surfaces (mocked up a distro plate with mirror bottom and an LED strip and DEAR GOD did it take forever to render at medium settings).

 

[ExoMale]

Thanks for reply.

I'm not stuck to tinkercad, I had been looking at other options first, just family members uses it for there 3D printing and praise it well, so thought I'd give it a go. I do and don't like complex designing software, I do however like features or more to the point options of content to add like a section for shapes etc, tinkercad has a limited library and I dont think it has an app option which I would prefer as the bars on top for browser gets in the way.

I use WiFi because of where I have my workspace which doesn't allow for routers etc with cables, so I dont know if tinkercad being browser gets effected much by signal which makes it slowish.

 

[LePhuronn]

Fusion 360 isn't complex to learn, and gets incredibly powerful as you get used to it. I found the learning curve to be shallow then steep; easy to get the basic concepts of doing everything with a 2D sketch, dimensioning and then using extrudes, sweeps and primitives to create my models, but then the more advanced stuff shot up in complexity, but I put that down to I don't understand the principles, rather than not understanding the software.

 

[ExoMale]

Yeah sounds good I will check it out thank you. Does it required certain level of hardware as eventually my gaming laptop will be replaced with a smaller non gaming variant ideally a 2 in 1 so I can use the tablet mode option for designing, but those im looking at has quad, hexo, octo core cpus just no dedicated graphics and will only have 8gb ram.

 

[LePhuronn]

The more power the better as always, but you can get away with something fairly basic for most things I've found. For example, I've fully modelled 3 mod projects, complete with components on motherboards, graphics cards and SSDs and started to hit some lag near the end on my i5 2500 with 8GB RAM. Those exact same projects have no such issues on my 6700K with 16GB RAM. Both systems used a GTX 950 Strix, but I'm not entirely sure how much of the GPU is getting used.

In fact, even my 2011 Macbook Air (2c/4t Sandy Bridge) with 4GB could do some fairly complex stuff without dying too badly.