V5 Client Hardware & Software Requirements
 

This document is provided as a guideline regarding hardware configurations, operating systems and operating system patches recommended for the use with Version 5 Release 20 on Client side. This information applies to the following products:

To access the page for Server side, click here.

 

Operating System

Supported Operating System Level(s)

Detailed Information

All Platforms This section contains information common to all operating systems click here
Microsoft Windows 32-bit
  • Windows XP Professional SP3
  • Windows Vista Enterprise / Business Edition x86 SP1
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Microsoft Windows 64-bit
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2
  • Windows Vista Enterprise / Business Edition x64 SP1 & SP2
  • Windows 7 Enterprise Edition/Professional Edition x64
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IBM AIX
  • AIX 6.1 Technical Level 02
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Sun Solaris
  • Solaris 10 HW 03/05
  • Solaris 10 05/08
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Important notice for Operating Systems support

The support of the following operating systems ended with Version 5 Release 17.
These systems are not supported from Version 5 Release 18 on:

  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
  • IBM AIX 5.2
  • SGI Irix (all levels)
  • Sun Solaris 8

The support of the following operating systems ended with Version 5 Release 19.
These systems are not supported from Version 5 Release 20 on:

  • IBM AIX 5.3
  • Hewlett-Packard HP-UX

Version 5 Release 20 is the last release supported on

  • Sun Solaris
  • IBM AIX Workstations

All Platforms

Recommended Memory

The following specifications apply for RAM (real memory)

For 3d com products:

For CAA-RADE products:

For other products (CATIA, DMU, ENOVIA V5 VPM, DELMIA Process Detailing & Validation, DELMIA Automation):

 


Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit

Operating System

Windows XP Professional SP3

  • Windows XP deliver an implementation of OpenGL libraries. Dassault Systemes provides recommendations related to driver levels on certified configurations.
    These drivers may offer a CATIA Version 5 application setting (see Control Panel, Display Properties tabs), which should be selected when available, as they may contain application specific features.
  • Localized version of the operating system may be required when selected installation locale differs from Latin1

 

Additional Software Requirements

For CAA-RADE products:

 

For ENOVIA 3d com and V5 VPM products:
Java enabled HTML browser

Note: Firefox 3.0 is supported for 3d com as an external browser (and not as an embedded browser). The embedded browser is Internet Explorer 7.0.

Operating System Browser Java Plug-In Level URL to download this Java Plug-In
Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit Internet Explorer 7 Sun Version 6 Update 10 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.

Java Run-Time Environment

ENOVIA VPLM Web Navigator products are designed to operate with the following software on the client side:

Operating System Java Run-Time Environment URL to download this Java Run-Time Environment
Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit Sun Version 6 Update 14 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.

For  V5 VPM products:
.NET Run-Time

Operating System .NET Run-Time Environment URL to download this .NET Run-Time Environment
Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit Microsoft® .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1 redistributable package http://www.microsoft.com/downloads
Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package – Second Edition (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads

 

Certified configurations

List of configurations certified with Version 5 is available at

http://www.3ds.com/support/hardware-certification/windows-certified-workstations/

 


Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Windows Vista x32 Enterprise and Business Edition SP1

 

Additional Software Requirements

For CAA-RADE products:

 

For ENOVIA 3d com and V5 VPM products:
Java enabled HTML browser

Note: Firefox 3.0 is supported for 3d com as an external browser (and not as an embedded browser). The embedded browser is Internet Explorer 7.0.

Operating System Browser Java Plug-In Level URL to download this Java Plug-In
Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit Internet Explorer 7 Sun Version 6 Update 10 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.


Java Run-Time Environment

ENOVIA VPLM Web Navigator products are designed to operate with the following software on the client side:

Operating System Java Run-Time Environment URL to download this Java Run-Time Environment
Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit Sun Version 6 Update 14 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.

For  V5 VPM products:
.NET Run-Time

Operating System .NET Run-Time Environment URL to download this .NET Run-Time Environment
Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit Microsoft® .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1 redistributable package http://www.microsoft.com/downloads
Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package – Second Edition (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads

 

 

Additional Considerations

IP V6 Inactivation

Starting with Windows Vista, IPv6 is installed and activated by default whereas a dual IPv4/IPv6 layer is provided. V5 Client/Server communication does not support IPv6 in V5R20, it is thus recommended to inactivate IPv6 to go back to IPv4
To inactivate IPv6 please refers to the following Microsoft Technet article:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/cba5a7ac-742a-49a6-8212-3844c768a0f81033.mspx?mfr=true
Sections :
To Uninstall IPv6 Using the Network Connections Folder
Or
To Uninstall IPv6 from a Computer from the Command Prompt
Note that this operation requires Administrative credentials

 

Certified configurations

List of configurations certified with Version 5 is available at

http://www.3ds.com/support/hardware-certification/windows-certified-workstations/


 

 

Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit

Note on Microsoft Windows 64-bit Support

Note that for ENOVIA 3d com Classic and ENOVIA V5 VPM, the support of Windows 64-bit is effective only on client side, not on server side.

 

Operating System

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition delivers an implementation of OpenGL libraries. Dassault Systemes provides recommendations related to driver levels based on certified configurations.
    These drivers may offer a CATIA Version 5 application setting (see Control Panel, Display Properties tabs), which should be selected when available, as they may contain application specific features.

 

Installation of 32-bit V5 applications

  • Although those Version 5 products are 32-bit applications, they will be able to allocate up to 4GB of Memory when running on this operating system.

For CATIA, DELMIA and ENOVIA DMU only: Installation of 64-bit V5 applications

  • Note: for a 64-bit process, memory consumption is completely different than for a 32-bit process. In this conditions, it is not pertinent to compare the  « Virtual Bytes »  counter of Perfmon between 32-bit process and 64-bit process. Although this counter is important to track for a 32-bit process because the global address space is limited to 4 GB including reserved virtual memory, for 64-bit process, virtual address space can reach 8 TB.

  • Known issue: When Japanese locales are used, console output will be corrupted at first Japanese character display, the "cout << " does not print any character after. This is a Microsoft CRT 8.0 bug and should be fixed by Microsoft.

The following patch is recommended
 

Patch Description
KB 973460 Ease crash problem determination by retrieving correct stack information :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973460/en-us/

 

 

Additional Software Requirements

For CAA-RADE products:

 

For ENOVIA 3d com and V5 VPM products:
Java enabled HTML browser

Note: Firefox 3.0 is supported for 3d com as an external browser (and not as an embedded browser). The embedded browser is Internet Explorer 7.0.

Operating System Browser Java Plug-In Level URL to download this Java Plug-In
Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Internet Explorer 7 Sun Version 6 Update 10 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.


Java Run-Time Environment

ENOVIA VPLM Web Navigator products are designed to operate with the following software on the client side:

Operating System Java Run-Time Environment URL to download this Java Run-Time Environment
Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Sun Version 6 Update 14 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.

Certified configurations

List of configurations certified with Version 5 is available at

http://www.3ds.com/support/hardware-certification/windows-certified-workstations/


Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit

Windows Vista x64 Enterprise and Business Edition SP1
Windows Vista x64 Enterprise and Business Edition SP2

 

Additional Software Requirements

For CAA-RADE products:

 

For ENOVIA 3d com and V5 VPM products:
Java enabled HTML browser

Note: Firefox 3.0 is supported for 3d com as an external browser (and not as an embedded browser). The embedded browser is Internet Explorer 7.0.

Operating System Browser Java Plug-In Level URL to download this Java Plug-In
Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit Internet Explorer 7 Sun Version 6 Update 10 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.


Java Run-Time Environment

ENOVIA VPLM Web Navigator products are designed to operate with the following software on the client side:

Operating System Java Run-Time Environment URL to download this Java Run-Time Environment
Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit Sun Version 6 Update 14 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.

Additional Considerations

IPv6 inactivation

Starting with Windows Vista, IPv6 is installed and activated by default whereas a dual IPv4/IPv6 layer is provided. V5 Client/Server communication does not support IPv6 in V5R19, it is thus recommended to inactivate IPv6 to go back to IPv4
To inactivate IPv6 please refers to the following Microsoft Technet article:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/cba5a7ac-742a-49a6-8212-3844c768a0f81033.mspx?mfr=true
Sections :
To Uninstall IPv6 Using the Network Connections Folder
Or
To Uninstall IPv6 from a Computer from the Command Prompt
Note that this operation requires Administrative credentials

Certified configurations

List of configurations certified with Version 5 is available at

http://www.3ds.com/support/hardware-certification/windows-certified-workstations/

Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit

Windows 7 x64 Enterprise and Professional Edition

The following patch can be considered :
 
Patch Description
KB983396 When facing issues related to 32-bit OLE objects display, a Microsoft patch is correcting this problem, see Microsoft Article KB983396 :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983396

 

Additional Software Requirements

For CAA-RADE products:

 

For ENOVIA 3d com and V5 VPM products:
Java enabled HTML browser

Operating System Browser Java Plug-In Level URL to download this Java Plug-In
Microsoft Windows 7
64-bit
Internet Explorer 8 Version 6 Update 14, 32-bit http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.


Java Run-Time Environment

ENOVIA VPLM Web Navigator products are designed to operate with the following software on the client side:

Operating System Java Run-Time Environment URL to download this Java Run-Time Environment
Microsoft Windows 7
64-bit
Sun Version 6 Update 14 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.

Additional Considerations

IPv6 inactivation

IPv6 is installed and activated by default whereas a dual IPv4/IPv6 layer is provided. V5 Client/Server communication does not support IPv6 in V5R19, it is thus recommended to inactivate IPv6 to go back to IPv4
To inactivate IPv6 please refers to the following Microsoft Technet article:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/cba5a7ac-742a-49a6-8212-3844c768a0f81033.mspx?mfr=true
Sections :
To Uninstall IPv6 Using the Network Connections Folder
Or
To Uninstall IPv6 from a Computer from the Command Prompt
Note that this operation requires Administrative credentials

 The following MultiCax Products are not certified yet on Windows 7 :

Windows XP mode on Windows 7

No support is provided on "Windows XP mode on Windows 7"

"surrogate pair"

No support is provided for "surrogate pair" on Windows 7

 

Certified configurations

List of configurations certified with Version 5 is available at

http://www.3ds.com/support/hardware-certification/windows-certified-workstations/

 

 


 


IBM AIX

Note

AIX 5.3 is no more supported with Version 5 Release 20.

Operating System

Base support:
AIX 6.1 Technical Level 02 (using 64-bit kernel) with following components:
 
Component
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
SMP Runtime Library as delivered on AIX CDs

 

Additional Software Requirements

For CAA-RADE products:
Compiler

Operating System Compiler
IBM AIX August 2008 XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX PTF

 

For ENOVIA 3d com and V5 VPM products:
Java enabled HTML browser

ENOVIA VPLM Web Navigator products are designed to operate with the following software on the client side:

Operating System Browser Java Plug-In Level URL to download this Java Plug-In
IBM AIX Firefox 2.0 IBM 1.6.0 SR3 http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/service.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.


Java Run-Time Environment

Operating System Java Run-Time Environment URL to download this Java Run-Time Environment
IBM AIX IBM 1.6.0 SR5 http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/service.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.

Certified Configurations

List of configurations certified with Version 5 is available at

http://www.3ds.com/support/hardware-certification/unix-certification-hardware.

 


SUN Solaris

Operating System

Solaris 10 HW 03/05 (SPARC) with the following patches applied:
 
Patch Description

119280-06 CDE 1.6

Runtime library patch for Solaris 10


Solaris 10  05/08 (SPARC)
 

 

Additional Software Requirements

For CAA-RADE products:
Compiler

Operating System Compiler
Sun Solaris

C, C++ Sun Studio 10 compiler

and the following patches applied:

Patch Description
117830-02 C++ 5.7 sun studio 10 C++ compiler
117832-01 common compiler backend iropt cg ipo ss10cc
117834-02 f95 8.1 fortran 90 sun studio 10
117836-02 C 5.7: Patch for SS10 C Compiler
117840-02 Patch for Sun Studio 10 Fortran 95 Dynamic Libraries
118678-01 Patch for Sun Studio 10 Performance Analyzer Tools

 

For ENOVIA 3d com and V5 VPM products:
Java enabled HTML browser

ENOVIA VPLM Web Navigator products are designed to operate with the following software on the client side:

Operating System Browser Java Plug-In Level URL to download this Java Plug-In
Sun Solaris Firefox 3.0 Sun Version 6 Update 10 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

Firefox 3.0 can be downloaded at the following address:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0/releasenotes/

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.


Java Run-Time Environment

Operating System Java Run-Time Environment URL to download this Java Run-Time Environment
Sun Solaris Sun Version 6 Update 14 http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

This Update is the minimum required level. V5 is also supported with higher Update level.

Certified Configurations

List of configurations certified with Version 5 is available at

http://www.3ds.com/support/hardware-certification/unix-certification-hardware.