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 16.

Important Notice on AIX 5.1 Support

CATIA and ENOVIA V5R15 will be the last release to support AIX 5.1. With standard support for AIX V5.1 ending on April 1, 2006, support for AIX V5.1 will end with V5R15 to allow a consistent level of maintenance and service on subsequent CATIA and ENOVIA releases.

Customers currently running CATIA and ENOVIA on AIX V5.1 are encouraged to migrate to AIX 5.3 as the End of Support for AIX 5.2 is Sept 1, 2007.

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 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 2000 / Windows XP

Operating System

Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4, or higher is required, or Windows XP Professional SP1 or SP2, with following components:
- Windows 2000, and 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
Note : Version 5 Release 17 will be the last release to support Windows 2000 Professional Edition

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 product are 32-bit applications, they will be able to allocate up to 4GB of Memory when running on this operating system.
- When using macro and VBScript features, CATIA 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.

64-bit CATIA V5

No required patches

32 and 64-bit CATIA V5 Certified configurations

IBM AIX

Operating System

AIX V5.2 ML02 including :
- C Set ++ Runtime for AIX 5.0 at level 6.0.0.11 (as minimum level)
- XL Fortran Runtime Environment at level 8.1.1.7 (as minimum level)
- JRE 1.3.1
- PTFs for following APARS:
  - IY48804 : EXCESSIVE SM_NOTIFY Messages
  - IY50668 : Malloc Buckets thread-safety issue
  - IY50443 : SDK 1.3.1 32-bit PTF : ca131-20031105
  - IY52615 : malloc does not properly update max in error case
  - IY52473 : Name collision in Print.h and XI.h
  - IY53656 : core w MAXDATA>=0xB0000000@DSA & 64-bit kernel
  - IY70204 : coredump in realloc_buckets()
  - when using products requiring a DB2, the following APARs must also be included
    - IY54657: FCLEAR() ON JFS2 MAY CAUSE CORRUPTION
    - IY56839: SYSTEM BOOT HANGS WHEN BOOT IMAGE EXCEEDS 12M 04/06/10 PTF PECHANGE
- In addition to those recommendations, the following list of patches are required to support GXT Graphic adapters :
  - IY62458 : XServer Hang with long line of text
  - IY58561 : Visual Problem with OpenGL Calls using GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE
  - IY65218 : Incorrect Color with CATIA running on GXT3000P
- For 64bit application support, the following motif patches are required for the Ctrl key to work properly :
  - IY66285: CTRL<BTN1DOWN> IN XMDRAWINGAREA NOT INVOKING APPROPRIATE ACTION
- Note : under AIX 5.2 with xlC.aix50.rte filesets at level 6.0.0.13 or higher, orbix command ( lsit, putit,chmodit,..) may result in a "Memory fault (coredump)" message. If you encounter this problem and to correct this, you must install APAR IY65658. Installation of the IY65658 APAR requires also the IY58421 APAR to be installed. Applying this APAR will result in the xlC.aix50.rte fileset being at the 7.0.0.3 level.
AIX 5.3 Maintenance Level 02 (ML02 is delivered through APAR IY69190) with following components:
- XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0.0 Run-time Environment :
  - November 2004 IBM C++ Runtime Environment Component for AIX
- XL Fortran Enterprise Edition V9.1.0 for AIX Run-Time
  - November 2004 XL Fortran for AIX V9.1 Runtime PTF
- Java 1.3.1 32 bit SR7P
  - IY58350 : JAVA 1.3.1 32-bit SR7P : ca131ifx-20040721a
- Support of GXT Graphic adapters requires :
  - IY70399 : CLIPPED CONCAVE POLYGONS NOT RENDERING CORRECTLY
Note :
- Version 5 Release 16 do not support AIX 5.1
- Version 5 Release 17 will be the last release to support AIX 5.2

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

HP-UX 11.11 with:
Support of C8000 workstation with serial ports activated requires the following patches :
- PHKL_30446
- PHKL_30447
- PHNE_30463
Support of C8000 workstation with ATI Fire GL X3-256 requires HPUX 11i (or 11.11) v1.0 with following bundles and patches :
- HP-UX 11i TCOE June 2004 (Core OS)
- GOLDAPPS11i Gold Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, June 2004
- GOLDBASE11i Gold Base Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, June 2004
- HWEnable11i Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, June 2004
- PHSS_30049 ld(1) and linker tools cumulative patch
- PHSS_31270 3D Common Run (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_31271 PEX 5.1/Starbase/Hardcopy Run (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_31274 Starbase/Hardware Dev (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_31275 OpenGL 1.1 Dev (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_31276 OpenGL 1.1 Run (PA2.0 only)
- PHSS_31281 Xserver cumulative patch
- PHSS_32185 C8000 PDC 2.12, BMC 2,32 Firmware patch

Support of Fire GL X1 / T2/ X3-256 requires the following customization :
- uncomment the option "AccelerateIndirectRendering" "false" in file /etc/X11/XF86Config to avoid graphic corruption.

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

SGI IRIX

Operating System

IRIX 6.5.15m (C, C++ and Fortran runtime environments, at level 7.3.1, are delivered with the operating system as well as OpenGL runtime environment) plus following recommended patches :
- patch 4848 Poor network performance with ef interface on machines with fast cpus
- patch 4815 libexc Update
- VPro graphics adapter requires following patch:
  - patch 4674 VPro graphics limited-release bug fixes for Irix 6.5.15m and Irix 6.5.15f
- In addition, support of Fuel Visual Workstations requires following patch :
  - patch 4695 IP35 6.5.15m PROM/kernel rollup/R14KA support

Onyx 3000 Series with InfinitePerformance Graphics are supported with IRIX 6.5.16m plus following patch:
- patch 4731 VPro updates for 6.5.16
- patch 4848 Poor network performance with ef interface on machines with fast cpus
- patch 4815 libexc Update
Support of Tezro workstation requires IRIX 6.5.21m with following patches:
- patch 5322 Non-C99 Catia patch for libc.so 6.5.21m
- patch 5330 IP35 kernel/PROM fixes for IRIX 6.5.21m
Support of Fuel 800 MHz workstation requires IRIX 6.5.23m :
- C, C++ and Fortran runtime environments, at level 7.4.1m, are delivered with the operating system as well as OpenGL runtime environment
- In addition to the Operating System base features the following list of patches must be installed :
  - patch 3131: 7.2.1 base compiler runtime environment for IRIX 6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5
  - patch 3140: 7.2.1 FORTRAN runtime for IRIX 6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5 - REQUIRED FOR F90
  - patch 3161: MIPSpro 7.2.1 Fortran77 Front-End
  - patch 3172: 7.2.1 Compiler Linker on IRIX 6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5
  - patch 3188: MIPSpro 7.2.1 C++ startup
  - patch 3398: MIPSpro 7.2.1 C++ front-end Upgrade #3
  - patch 4160: Strip update for MIPSpro 7.2.1
  - patch 3139: libmp rollup
  - patch 3458: rld rollup #15

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

SUN Solaris

Operating System

Solaris 8 HW 05/03 minimum (includes C and C++ runtime environments; Fortran runtime environment is delivered with CATIA V5), with OpenGL 1.2.3 with following recommended packages and patches.
- Recommended packages
  - SUNWlibC SPARCompilers Bundled libC
  - SUNWglrt OpenGL for Solaris Runtime Libraries
  - SUNWbtool CCS tools bundled with SunOS
  - SUNWxwoft X Window system optional fonts 6.4.1
- Solaris 8 HW 05/03 with following patches :
  - 108652-83 Xsun
  - 112628-29 OpenGL 1.2.3
  - XVR-600 graphics adapter requires OpenGL 1.3 minimum with following recommended patches (XVR-1200 is also supported with this configuration) :
    - 114554-12 XVR1200 Graphics Accelerator patch
    - 113886-22 OpenGL 1.3 patch
- Sun Blade 1500+ (1.5GHz) requires Solaris 8 02/04 and OpenGL 1.3 with following patches :
  - 114554-12 XVR1200 Graphics Accelerator patch
  - 113886-26 OpenGL 1.3 patch
  - 108652-83 Xsun
Notes :
- Elite3D M3 graphic adapter is not supported on Ultra10 except on Ultra10/440 MHz.

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