System Requirements for CADAM Drafting V5

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Hardware Requirements

Common Hardware Requirements

The following requirements are common to all operating systems supported by CATIA Version 5 Release 16. System unit and graphic adapter requirements are platform specific and are detailed in the topics that follow.

• Required Components and Features
  • Disk drive: An internal or external disk drive (minimum recommended size is 4 GB) is required to store program executables, program data, the user environment, and to provide paging space. Installation of all CATIA V5 products requires 2.0 GB on Windows, 2.4 GB on AIX, and 2.7 GB on HP-UX.
  • Memory: 256 MB of RAM is the minimum recommended for all applications. 512 MB of RAM is recommended for DMU applications on large assemblies and for the Digitized Shape Editor 2 (DSE) product. Requirements may be greater when large amounts of data are used.
  • Internal/external drives: A CD-ROM drive is required for program installation and for access to the online documentation, which can optionally be downloaded to disk.
  • Display: A graphics color display compatible with the selected platform-specific graphics adapter. The minimum recommended size for usability reasons is 17 inches. Minimum resolution for Windows workstations is 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024 for UNIX workstations. When selecting a graphics adapter, hardware texturing capability is strongly recommended when using CATIA V5 products that use texture mapping, in which case the amount of texture RAM has to be adequate for the number and complexity of textures to be used.
  • Keyboard: A specific keyboard compatible with the selected installation locale may be required for national language support.
  • Pointing device: Three-button mouse. On Windows workstations, a two-button mouse may alternatively be used (the third button is emulated with a keyboard sequence). The three-button mouse is recommended for usability reasons. IntelliMouse (two buttons plus a wheel instead of the third button) is an alternative to the three-button mouse on Windows workstations. The wheel acts as the middle button to allow additional manipulations, such as panning and scrolling.

The robustness of the overall solution is dependant on the robustness of the operating system and the hardware environment used. Windows and UNIX hardware configurations certified By Dassault Systemes for running CATIA products are published at:

http://www.catia.com/your_catia/html/hwnt2.htm

Although CATIA Version 5 products might run on configurations or with graphic adapters other than those specified for each of the platforms below, incidents specific to such configurations or adapters will not be accepted for support.

Hardware Requirements for a Windows 2000 or Windows XP Environment

• System Unit: An Intel Pentium III or Pentium 4 based workstation running Windows 2000 Professional Edition or Windows XP Professional Edition.
• Graphic Adapter: An OpenGL-capable graphic adapter is required. Note that graphic performance on local transformations (panning, zooming, rotating model) will depend on the selected graphic adapter. The graphic adapter should have the following capabilities:
  • 24 bit, true color, double buffered visual
  • 24 bit Z-buffer 
  • Stencil buffer
  • Minimum supported resolution is 1024x768; a resolution of 1280x1024 is recommended for usability reasons
• Network adapter: An active LAN adapter (ethernet or token ring, installed and configured) is required for licensing purposes.

Hardware Requirements in an AIX^® Environment

• System Unit: Any RS/6000^®, based on PowerPC 604™ (166 MHz minimum clock speed), POWERr2, POWER3, or POWER4 processor families, supported on AIX Version  5.2, provided that the requirements described below are met.
• Graphic Adapter: One of the following graphic adapters is required.
  • GXT500P
  • GXT550P
  • GXT800P
  • GXT800M
  • GXT2000P
  • GXT3000P
  • GXT4000P
  • GXT4500P
  • GXT6000P
  • GXT6500P

Hardware Requirements in an HP-UX Environment

• System Unit: Any B-Class, C-Class, or J-Class workstation based on a PA8000 processor, supported on  HP-UX 11.11 (HP-UX 11i), provided that the requirements described below are met.
• Graphic Adapter: One of the following graphic adapters is required:
  • Visualize-FXE
  • Visualize-FX2
  • Visualize-FX4
  • Visualize-FX5
  • Visualize-FX6
  • Visualize-FX10
  • Fire GL-UX
  • Fire GL T2-128
  • Fire GL X1

Software Requirements

Common Software Requirements

CADAM Drafting for V5 runs on selected levels of:

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows XP
• AIX
• Hewlett Packard HP-UX

Refer to the Program Directory or contact your IBM Support Center for appropriate corrective service to apply to the software described in the topics that follow.

Software Requirements in a Windows 2000 or Windows XP Environment: 

The following components at the indicated level are required:

• Windows 2000 Professional Edition with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP Professional Edition with SP1 or SP2, with the following components:
  • A Microsoft implementation of the OpenGL libraries as delivered with Windows 2000 or Windows XP.  These libraries may have to be updated to accommodate the selected graphics adapter when installing the graphics adapter and its associated drivers.  Dassault Systemes will provide recommendations related to driver levels based on certified configurations through the CATIA V5 website at URL:
    http://www.ibm.com/solutions/plm
  • A localized version of the operating system may be required when the selected installation locale differs from Latin 1.

Software Requirements in an IBM AIX Environment: The following components at the minimum indicated level are required:

AIX 5.2 ML02, with the following components:

• IBM C Set++ for AIX Application Runtime (5765-F56) at a minimum level of 6.0.0. The C Set++ Application Runtime is shipped with the AIX operating system.
• IBM XL Fortran Runtime Environment for AIX at a minimum level of 8.1.1.
• OpenGL and GL3.2 Runtime Environment (delivered with the operating system).
• Common Desktop Environment (CDE; delivered with the operating system).

Software Requirements in an HP-UX Environment: The following components at the minimum indicated level are required:

• HP-UX 11.11 (HP-UX 11i) with the following minimum levels indicated:
  • ANSI C++ Runtime Environment (C++, at a minimum level of 3.50, delivered with the operating system)
  • HP Fortran 90 Runtime Environment (delivered with the operating system)
  • HP-UX 700 OpenGL 3D API Runtime Environment
  • CDE (Common Desktop Environment - delivered with the HP-UX operating system.)
• A localized version of the operating system may be required when the selected installation locale differs from ISO code pages.

Required system maintenance for the HP-UX Environment: 

PHSS_11392 (s700_800 10.20 libhppa.a cumulative patch) must be installed on the system for CADAM Drafting to function correctly.

Access to Product Information: CADAM Drafting product information is delivered on the product CDs in HTML format. An HTML browser is required to access this documentation. This requirement can be satisfied with Microsoft Internet Explorer at a minimum level of 6.0. Although access to the online documentation might work on other HTML browsers, incidents specific to browsers other than those specified are not eligible for support.

Prerequisites for the Licensing Environment

• Windows workstations must have a LAN card (Ethernet or Token Ring) and TCP/IP installed and properly configured, but there is no need to have the workstations connected to the network.
• No additional software is required when accessing nodelock licenses.
• LUM is required to serve concurrent licenses across a network. A LUM configuration file (i4ls.ini) is required on CATIA clients to access concurrent licenses from these servers.
• At minimum, IBM License Use Management 4.6.5 (LUM) is required on UNIX or Windows 2000 Professional license servers. 
• At minimum, IBM License Use Management 4.6.5 (LUM) is required on Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server license servers.
• At minimum, IBM License Use Management 4.6.5 (LUM) is required when HAL (High Availability Licensing) licensing mechanism offered by LUM is used.
• At minimum, IBM License Use Management 4.6.5 (LUM) is required on Windows XP license servers.
• At minimum, IBM License Use Management 4.6.7 (LUM) is required on Windows Server 2003 license servers.
• At minimum, IBM License Use Management 4.6.7 (LUM) is required when the Concurrent Offline Licensing mechanism offered by LUM is used.
• IBM License Use Management may be obtained, at no charge, from:
  http://www.ibm.com/software/lum

Printer and Plotter support in a UNIX environment: CADAM Drafting Version 5 Release 16 provides support for the following plotter/printer languages:

• CGM-ISO, ATA, CALS
• Hewlett Packard HP-GL/2-RTL and HP-GL or IBM-GL subsets.
• PostScript

Printer and Plotter support in a Windows Environment: Support of printers and plotters for Windows is performed through the vendor's drivers for the targeted printer or plotter. Contact the printer or plotter vendor for requirements and support.