CATIA Education Center - System Requirements

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The following requirements are common to all operating systems supported by this release.

Network Adapter: An active LAN adapter (installed and configured) is required for licensing purposes.
Operating System: Windows® 2000 Professional(Service Pack 4 minimum) or Windows XP Professional Environment.

**Note: Please be aware that CATIA is not supported on the new Windows VISTA platform and will not function correctly.
System Unit: An Intel® Pentium® III, Pentium® 4, or greater/equivilant.
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 product requires 1.7 GB on Windows).
Memory: 512 MB of RAM is recommended. 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 graphic color display compatible with the selected platform-specific graphics adapter. The minimum recommended size for usability reasons is 17 inches.
Graphics Adaptor: A graphics adapter with a 3D OpenGL™ accelerator is required. Note that graphic performance on local transformations (panning, zooming, rotating model) will depend on the selected graphics adapter. The graphics adapter should have the following capabilities:

Minimum supported resolution: a minimum resolution of 1024 x 768 is recommended for usability reasons.
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.