CATIA Hardware & Software Requirements

This document is provided as a guideline regarding hardware configurations, operating system and operating system patches recommended for the use with CATIA Version 5 Release 18.

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

All Platforms

Recommended Memory

256 MB of RAM is the minimum recommended amount of memory for all applications. 512 MB of RAM is recommended for ENOVIA DMU applications on large assemblies, and for the Digitized Shape Editor 2 product. Requirements may be greater when large amount of data are used.

Windows XP

Operating System

Windows XP Professional SP2, with following components:
- Windows XP deliver an implementation of OpenGL libraries. Dassault Systemes will provide recommendations related to driver levels based on certified configurations at URL: http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/windows/certified-workstations-list/. 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 requirements:
  MS06-075 : Vulnerability in Windows could allow elevation of privilege :
  
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS06-075.mspx
  
  MSI Installer 3.1 : Windows Installer 3.1 v2 (3.1.4000.2435) available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893803

Certified and Derived Configurations

Please follow the link to the dedicated page of the program directory.

Windows 64-bit

Operating System

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, with following components:
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition delivers an implementation of OpenGL libraries. Dassault Systemes will provide recommendations related to driver levels based on certified configurations at URL: http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/windows/certified-workstations-list/. 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.

32-bit CATIA V5

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.
- KB903648 : When using macro and VBScript features, V5 may crash when accessing more than 2GB of address space, a Microsoft patch is correcting this problem , see Microsoft Article : KB903648 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903648.
- KB911021 : required for applications allowing more than 2GB of address space . please contact your Microsoft support representative.

64-bit CATIA V5

No required patches
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 issues : 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.

32 and 64-bit CATIA V5 Certified configurations

Please follow the link to the dedicated page of the program directory.

IBM AIX

Operating System

Base support
- AIX 5.3 Maintenance Level 03 (using 64-bit kernel) with following components:
  - XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0.0 Run-time Environment :
    - XL 7 May 2005 PTF R/T (xlC.aix50.rte at level 7.0.0.6) , delivered through APAR IY71976
  - XL Fortran Enterprise Edition V9.1.0 for AIX Run-Time
    - November 2004 XL Fortran for AIX V9.1 Runtime PTF (available at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24008377)
Additional support:
- AIX 5.3 TL04-SP1 ( using 64-bit kernel) with following components :
  - XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0.0 Run-time Environment
    - January 2006 IBM C++ Runtime Environment Component for AIX (available at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24011532 )
  - XL Fortran Enterprise Edition V10.1.0 for AIX Run-Time
    - Base level available at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24010669
  - Support of nodelocked licensing requires ( to use nodelock license) :
    - IY80993: WORKAROUND APPLICATION DEPENDENCY ON SYSTEM-ID
    - Firmware Version: AT061_061 or later
  - With the following patches :
    - IY82392: 0C9 SYSTEM CRASH WITH GRAPHICS ADAPTER
    - Support of GXT4500P requires the following patch to be applied :
      - IY80526: CATIA V4 HANGS ON GXT4500P WHEN ROTATING A MODEL
- WAS 6.1 and WPS support or IBM IntelliStation P185 support requires AIX 5.3 TL04-SP1 with above recommendations

List of configurations certified with CATIA Version 5 is available at http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/unix/unix-based-workstations/

HP-UX

Operating System

List of configurations certified with CATIA Version 5 is available at http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/unix/unix-based-workstations/

HP 11iv1 (11.11) December 2004 with following requirements

HP-UX Technical Computing OE (TCOE) Component December 2004

Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2004

Gold Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2004

Gold Base Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2004

With following patches applied :

PHCO_31923 : libc cumulative header file patch

PHCO_33360 : libc cumulative patch

PHKL_31918 : fsadm;ACL;locking order;8K mount;readdir

PHNE_32477 : ONC/NFS General Release/Performance Patch

PHSS_29483 : HP aC++ Compiler (A.03.52)

PHSS_31271 : PEX 5.1/Starbase/Hardcopy Run (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_31274 : Starbase/Hardcopy Dev (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_31275 : OpenGL 1.1 Dev (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_32573 : HP aC++ -AA runtime libraries (aCC A.03.61)

PHSS_32928 : 3D Common Run (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_32934 : OpenGL 1.1 Run (PA2.0 only)

PHSS_32939 : Xserver cumulative patch

PHSS_33033 : ld(1) and linker tools cumulative patch

SUN Solaris

Operating System

Solaris 10 HW 03/05 ( SPARC) with :
- 119280-06 CDE 1.6: Runtime library patch for Solaris 10

List of configurations certified with CATIA Version 5 is available at http://www.3ds.com/implementation/technology/unix/unix-based-workstations/.