CADAM Drafting V5 System Requirements

The following requirements are common to all operating systems supported by CADAM Drafting Version 5 Release 20. 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.
  • 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.

Although CADAM Drafting 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 XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 Environment

• System Unit: An Intel workstation (Pentium III at minimum) running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7.
• Graphic Adapter: Any PCI, PCIe, or AGP graphic adapter supported by the Windows versions listed in the Software Requirements section.
• 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), or Power4 processor families, supported on AIX V6.1.
  • Any Power5 or PowerPC based system supported on AIX V6.1.
• Graphic Adapter: One of the following graphic adapters is required.
  • GXT500P
  • GXT550P
  • GXT800P
  • GXT800M
  • GXT2000P
  • GXT3000P
  • GXT4000P
  • GXT4500P
  • GXT6000P
  • GXT6500P

Software Requirements

Common Software Requirements

CADAM Drafting V5 runs on selected levels of:

• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows 7
• IBM AIX

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 XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 Environment: 

One of the following:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2
• Microsoft Windows Vista x32 Enterprise or Business Edition
• Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Enterprise or Business Edition
• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Windows 7 x64

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

• AIX 6.1 Technical Level 02 (using 64-bit kernel) with following components:
  • XL C/C++ V10.1.0.0 Run-time Environment (part of AIX 6.1 TL02)
  • XL Fortran V12.1.0.0 Run-Time Environment (part of AIX 6.1 TL02)
  • OpenGL 1.3 as delivered on AIX CDs

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 7.0 or Firefox at a minimum level of 3.0. 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:

Printer and Plotter support in a UNIX environment: CADAM Drafting Version 5 Release 19 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