 | Common operating systems requirements Hardware requirements The following requirements are common to all operating systems supported by CATIA Version 4. System unit and graphic requirements are platform-specific and are detailed in the following paragraphs. - Disk drive: an internal or external disk drive (minimum recommended size is 4 GB) is required to store program executables (installation of all CATIA Version 4 Products requires 1.1 GB), program data, usage environment and paging space.
- Memory: 256 MB of RAM is the minimum recommended amount of memory for all applications. Requirements may be greater when large amounts of data are used.
- Internal/External Drives: a CD-ROM drive is required for program installation and access to the online documentation, which can be downloaded to disk.
- Display: a graphic color display, compatible with the selected platform-specific graphic adapter, is required. The minimum recommended size for usability reasons is 17 inches. Minimum resolution for Microsoft® Windows® workstations is 800x600 and 1280x1024 for UNIX® workstations. When selecting a graphic adapter, hardware texturing capability is strongly recommended when using CATIA Version 4 products that use texture mapping, in which case the amount of RAM has to be adequate for the number and complexity of textures to be used.
- Keyboard: a specific keyboard compatible with selected installation locale may be required for national language support.
- Pointing device: 3-button mouse. On Windows workstations, a 2-button mouse may alternatively be used (the third button is emulated with a keyboard sequence). The 3 button mouse is recommended for usability reasons.
- Optional components and features: SpaceBall and SpaceMouse can be used, in addition to the mouse, to perform graphic manipulations (zoom, pan, rotate, etc.). Necessary drivers are delivered with the device. Those devices can be used with CATIA DMU Navigator 1 (DN1), DMU Space Analysis 1 (SP1) and all CATIA P2 Products.
- The CADAM Drafting Products do not support Spaceball and Magellan.
- 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 Systèmes for running CATIA Version 4 products are published at http://www.ibm.com/solutions/plm/. Although CATIA Version 4 products might run on other configurations or other graphic adapters, incidents specific to these configurations or adapters would not be accepted for support.
Software requirements CATIA Version 4 runs on selected system levels of: - Windows 2000®
- Windows NT®
- IBM® AIX®
- Hewlett Packard HP-UX
- SGI IRIX
- Sun Solaris
Refer to the Program Directory or contact your IBM Support Center for appropriate corrective service to apply to the software described in the following paragraphs. Windows 2000, Windows NT Hardware requirements - This topic applies to the CATIA/CADAM Drafting product suite only.
- System unit: Any personal computer utilizing an Intel Pentium®, Pentium II, or Pentium III or compatible processor may be used.
- Memory: A minimum of 32 MB of real memory is required; 64 MB of real memory is recommended to run in a production environment. The real memory requirement may be greater if large or complex models are to be used.
- An internal or external CD-ROM drive is required for program installation.
- Direct access storage: 100 MB is required
- Graphic adapter: An SVGA graphics card with a minimum of 2 MB of video RAM is required.
- Network adapter: an active LAN adapter (Ethernet or Token Ring, installed and configured) is required for licensing purposes.
Software requirements - Minimum level required:
This topic applies only to the CADAM Drafting product suite. The basic operating system requirement is Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 4, 5, or 6a applied) or Windows 2000. - A FORTRAN or C compiler is required to create CADAM IUE programs. Dassault Systèmes has tested and certified the following compilers:
- Absoft FORTRAN 77 Version 3.0
- Absoft Pro FORTRAN Version 5.0
- Microsoft Visual C++ Version 5.0
- CADAM Drafting (5626-CCD) is the required base for CADAM IUE (5626-IUE), CATIA/CADAM MCX Translator (5626-MCX), and CATIA/CADAM Hybrid Raster (5626-RAS). CATIA/CADAM 2D Markup and Annotation (5626-MU2) is a stand-alone product.
- All CADAM Drafting products in a given system must be at the same version, release, and modification level, unless specifically announced otherwise.
Sun Solaris Hardware requirements - System Unit: any Sparc Station 20 Model 71, Ultra 1 Creator3D, Ultra 2 Creator3D, Ultra10 Creator3D Series III, Ultra 10 440 MHz Elite3D or Ultra30 Creator3D or Ultra60 Creator3D Series III/Elite3D or Sun Blade 1000/Elite 3D supported under Solaris 2.6.0 (also called SunOS 5.6.0) or Solaris 7 or Solaris 8 may be used, provided that the requirements described below are met.
- Real Memory: 256 MB of real memory is recommended to run CATIA Solutions Version 4 in production environment. The real memory requirement can be greater if large or complex models are to be used.
- Graphic Adapter: one of the following graphic adapter is required:
- ZX for SPARCstation 20
- Creator3D for Ultra 1 or Ultra 2 or Ultra30 workstations
- Creator3D Series III for Ultra10 or Ultra60 workstations
- Elite3D for Ultra 10 440 MHz, Ultra60, or Sun Blade 1000 workstations only
- Expert3D
Software requirements - Minimum level required:
- Solaris 2.6.0, Solaris 7, or Solaris 88.
- CDE 1.2
- FORTRAN 4.2 runtime required by CATIA is delivered with CATIA Solutions Version 4
- SunPHIGS runtime required by CATIA is delivered with CATIA Solutions Version 4
Note: The C++ runtime environment is delivered with the operating system.
SGI-IRIX Hardware requirements - System Unit: Any Indy, O2, Indigo2, Octane, Octane2, Onyx, or Onyx2 workstations based on any R4000, R4400, R4600, R5000, R8000, R10000, or R12000 processor supported under IRIX 6.5.2m, provided that the following requirements are met:
- Memory: 256 MB of real memory is recommended to run CATIA Solutions Version 4 in a production environment. The real memory requirement may be greater if large or complex models are to be used.
- An internal or external 4-mm DAT tape drive or CD-ROM drive is required for program installation.
- Graphic Adapter: one of the following graphic adapters is required:
- Entry2
- XS (with optional zbuffer)2
- XS/24 (with optional zbuffer)
- Indy 9-Bit2
- Indy 24-Bit
- Indy XZ
- XZ
- Elan
- Extreme
- XL
- Integrated graphic adapter on O2 workstations
- RE (Reality Engine)
- RE2 (Reality Engine)
- Solid Impact, or SI/SE
- High Impact
- Super Solid Impact, or SSI/SSE
- Maximum Impact, MXI/MXE
Software requirements - Minimum level required:
- IRIX 6.5.2m is required
- C, C++, FORTRAN 77 Runtime Environment Version 7.2.1. The Execution Environments for C, C + + , and FORTRAN 77 are delivered with IDF (IRIX Development Foundations) and IDL (IRIX Development Libraries). IDF and IDL are packaged with the IRIX Foundation (base operating system) for IRIX 6.5.
- Link editing applications based on CATIA APIs or installation of the CATIA API Library (libgeo.a) require IDL and IDF.
- IRIX Interactive Desktop (delivered with the operating system) is required
- Note: IRIX system software delivers the C++ runtime and FORTRAN runtime required by CATIA.
HP-UX Hardware requirements Software requirements - Minimum level required:
HP-UX 10.20 A.C.E. 4 (June '99)5, HP-UX 10.20 A.C.E. 5 (December '99)5, or HP-UX 11.0 A.C.E. (November '99) is required. - ANSI C++ (a C++) Runtime Environment, Version 1.21, is required.
- FORTRAN runtime is required.
- CDE is the supported desktop environment; the VUE desktop environment is no longer supported.
- HP-PHIGS runtime environment is required (not required for the Drafting products).
- PEX runtime environment is required (not required for the Drafting products).
- Powershade is required (not required for the Drafting products).
- Notes:
- ANSI C + + (a C++) runtime libraries are delivered with the operating system.
- The FORTRAN runtime environment required by CATIA is delivered with the operating system.
- PEX runtime environment is delivered with the operating system.
- Powershade is included when Graphics Adapter is ordered.
- Because of binary differences between HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.0, support of HP-UX 11.0 is limited to a strict runtime environment. Operations that involve compiling and linking objects should be conducted on HP-UX 10.20 and copied on HP-UX 11.0 systems for execution.
AIX Hardware requirements - Release 2.4 is designed to operate with the Motif CATIA user interface.
- System unit: supported POWER3 and POWER4 workstations, such as the Intellistation POWER 275, may be used.
- Required processor components and features
- 256 MB of real memory is recommended to run CATIA Solutions Version 4 in a production environment. The real memory requirement may be greater if large or complex models are to be used.
- For the CADAM Drafting products, the minimum memory requirement is 32 MB (48 MB if using the Softgraphics display option). 64 MB is recommended for running in a production environment.
- A 4-mm tape drive, 8-mm tape drive, or CD-ROM drive is required for program installation.
Installing CATIA Solutions for RS/6000 requires an internal or external 2.3 GB or 5.0 GB 8-mm tape drive, 4-mm tape drive, or CD-ROM drive. These drives require a SCSI high-performance input/output (I/O) controller, as either a standard or an optional feature (depending on the RS/6000 model). This equipment is required to perform an initial installation of CATIA Solutions Version 4. The product documentation explains how to install CATIA Solutions Version 4 on other network-connected RS/6000 machines after the initial installation. A CD-ROM is required for the CATIA online documentation in the FrameMaker format. Direct Access Storage: CATIA Solutions Version 4 licensed programs and configurations, user data, and user programs may be stored on any internal or external direct access storage device (DASD) supported by the pSeries (or pSeries and RS/6000). The following DASD requirements for CATIA Solutions Version 4 are approximate: - All installed products of CATIA Solutions Version 4 require 1.1 GB of DASD. Refer to the Program Directory to estimate disk space requirements for specific products and configurations.
- Usage environment: 40 MB is required.
- Administration environment: Up to 100 MB, without the demonstration files delivered with CATIA Solutions Version 4 products, is required.
- Minimum paging space: 256 MB is required.
- The five CADAM Drafting products collectively require 185 MB.
- Graphics adapters: one of the following is required:
- POWER GXT150 (feature number 2767)
- POWER GXT150L™ (feature number 2660)
- POWER GXT150M™ (feature number 2650)
- POWER GXT150P (feature number 2648) For use with RS/6000 7020-40P and 7248-120 or 132 (43P)
- POWER GXT250P (feature number 2851)
- POWER GXT255P (feature number 2852) For a better graphic performance level on GXT255P, the use of AIX mode "ONLY8BIT=TRUE" is recommended.
- POWER GXT500 12-Bit (feature number 2644) (for machines 41T, 41W, 42T, and 42W)
- POWER GXT500D 24-Bit (feature number 2646) (for machines 41T, 41W, 42T, and 42W)
- POWER GXT500P 12-Bit (feature number 2854)
- POWER GXT550P 24-Bit (feature number 2855)
- POWER GXT800P 24-Bit (feature number 2853 or 2859)
- POWER GXT800M 24-Bit (feature number 2850)
- POWER GXT1000™ Model 001 or 002 (machine type 7250-001 or 7250-002)
- POWER GXT2000P - POWER GXT3000P (feature number 2825)
- POWER GXT4000P - POWER GXT6000P
- POWER GXT4000P - POWER GXT6500P
Software requirements - Minimum level required:
See program directory for current operating system and other software levels.
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