So I just graduated college in electrical engineering and landed a job at a company that builds agricultural equipment. I can design a circuit but as far as computers I just don't have current market knowledge to know what would be best. Because I work Primarily in systems involving mechanical and electrical design, I tend to run solidworks,autocad, autocad inventor, cadence capture and autocad electrical along with the random simulation software.
Price-"$1500-2500" would like to keep it down but willing to spend for a good reason.
currancy is $US
Big debate is running an I7 or going xeon.
As far as storage goes i was thinking just one ssd because it will run off of a server anyway so no need for a HD.
well i was thinking about a few things. but i realy need to know how cpu heavy the simulation software realy is. if this software is very thread demandig, i was thinking of getting an socket 2011 ivy-bridge -E setup. with maybe a 6 cores 12 threads if the simulation software is realy heavy.
i did some research about autocad inventor, and i found out that a GPU is realy important, i saw some benchmarks on which showd me that the nvidia GTX680 was leading the table. on the 2013 version of this software. so i was thinking that a GTX780 as a gpu would be your best bet.
i come up with 2 options, on which i think this will fit your needs.
option 1 with intel i7-4930K: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/25k4i
option 2 with intel i7-4820K: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/25k2N
Hasswell option: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/25kd9
Offcourse on the Hasswell build you could cheap out on motherboard if you like. This are just a few builds to give you some inspiration ☺