Installation Requirements

 

Useful Documentation and Knowledge

 

The publications listed in the following table may be useful during the installation of CATIA Solutions.

Publication Title

Form Number

CATIA Solutions Installation Guide UNIX Workstation
SH52-1189
CATIA Solutions Planning and Administration Guide UNIX Workstation
SH52-0601
CATIA Solutions Installing Additional Features UNIX Workstation
SH52-1223

The reader should also have some knowledge of the basic UNIX file environment and at least one editor.

 

System Requirements

 

Note that Irix support on SGI stations is being withdrawn in Version 4 Release 2.5.

This section describes the environment of the system required to install and use CATIA Solutions.

Manufacturer
Operating System

IBM
AIX

HP
HP-UX

Sun
Solaris

Hardware Requirements IBM HP Sun
  • Disk Storage Requirements (common section)
Disk Storage
Software Requirements AIX HP-UX

Solaris

 

Hardware Requirements

IBM Environment

Processor Requirements
  • CATIA Version 4 Release 2.5 may be used on any RS/6000, based on PowerPC 604 (166 MHz minimum clock speed), Power2, Power3, Power4 or Power5 processor families, supported on AIX Version 5.3 ML03, provided that requirements described below are met.
Required Processor Components and Features
  • Real Memory: A minimum of 256 MB of real memory is required.
  • A CD-ROM drive for program installation.

Installation of CATIA Version 4 Release 2.5 Version for IBM RS/6000 requires an internal or external CD-ROM drive. This drive requires a SCSI High-Performance Input/Output (I/O) Controller, which is either standard or an optional feature (depending on the RS/6000 model).

A CD-ROM drive is required to view the on-line documentation in HTML format.

Product documentation explains installation on other network-connected RS/6000 machines after the initial installation with the drive.

Configuration Requirements:

 

All following components are required:
  • Graphics device adapter
  • Color graphics display
  • Keyboard
  • 3-button mouse
  • for installation only: CD-ROM drive
Required Processor Components and Features Graphics devices (one of the following):
  • POWER GXT500P 12-Bit and GXT550P 24-Bit (feature numbers 2854 and 2855)
  • POWER GXT800P 24-Bit and GXT800M 24-Bit (feature number 2853 or 2859 and 2850)
  • POWER GXT2000P
  • POWER GXT3000P (feature number 2825)
  • POWER GXT4000P
  • POWER GXT4500P
  • POWER GXT6000P
  • POWER GXT6500P

Note: Other adapters are not supported by CATIA Version 4 Release 2.5. Although this product might run with other adapters, incidents encountered that are specific to other adapters will not be accepted for analysis or correction.

Required components and features:
  • Three-button mouse (feature number 6041)
  • Alphanumeric keyboard
  • Display: one display compatible with the graphics devices is listed.

 

HP Environment

Processor Requirements Any B-Class, C-Class or J-Class workstation based on a PA8000 processor family, supported under HP-UX 11.11 (HP-UX 11i Dec 2004), provided that requirements described below are met
Required Processor Components and Features
  • An internal or external CD-ROM drive is required for program installation.

This equipment is required to perform an initial installation. Product documentation explains installation on other network-connected HP workstations after the initial installation with the drive.

A CD-ROM drive is required to view the online documentation in HTML format.

Configuration Requirements:

 

All following components are required:
  • Graphics card
  • Color graphics display
  • Keyboard
  • 3-button mouse
  • For installation only: CD-ROM
Required Processor Components and Features Graphics cards:
  • VISUALIZE FXE
  • VISUALIZE FX2
  • VISUALIZE FX4
  • VISUALIZE FX5
  • VISUALIZE FX6
  • VISUALIZE FX10
  • Fire GL-UX
  • Fire GL T2-128
  • Fire GL X1
  • FireGL X3
Required components and features:
  • Three-button mouse (A2839B or A2838A)
  • Alphanumeric keyboard
  • One display compatible with the graphics cards listed above

 

Sun Environment

Processor Requirements
  • Any Ultra1, Ultra2, Ultra10, Ultra30, Ultra60, Ultra80, SUN Blade 100, SUN Blade 150, SUN Blade 1000, SUN Blade 1500, SUN Blade 2000, SUN Blade 2500 or SUN Blade 1500+ (1.5GHz)workstation based on UltraSPARC processor, supported on Solaris 10.03/05, provided that requirements described below are met.
Required Processor Components and Features
  • A CD-ROM drive is required for program installation; this drive must be compatible with the following Sun models:

Product documentation explains installation on other network-connected SUN machines after the initial installation with CD drive.

A CD-ROM drive is required to view the on-line documentation in HTML format.

  • Disk space: CATIA Version 4 Release 2.5  licensed programs and configurations, user data and user programs may be stored on any internal or external disk by the SUN machines.
Configuration Requirements

 

All following components are required:
  • SUN workstation
  • Graphics card
  • Color graphics display
  • Keyboard
  • 3-button mouse
  • For installation only: CD-ROM drive
Required Processor Components and Features Graphic device adapter (one of the following):
  • Creator3D
  • Creator3D Series III
  • Elite3D model M3 for Ultra10 440MHz workstation
  • Elite3D model M3 and M6 for Ultra60 workstation
  • Expert3D
  • Expert3D-Lite
  • XVR-500
  • XVR-1000
  • XVR-1200
  • XVR-600 (Support of XVR-600 requires OpenGL 1.3)
Required components and Features
  • SUN three-button mouse
  • Alphanumeric keyboard
  • One display compatible with the graphics card listed above

 

DASD Storage Requirements

The storage requirements of CATIA Solutions may vary with your selection of products and options. As a guideline for your dimensioning of storage requirements, maximum values are provided below, allowing a margin for maintenance modifications. Beside these values, up to 6 MB of temporary storage (/tmp) will be used during the installation, and up to approximatively 100 MB for administrator customization without demo files.
 

Operating System

Code Size (MB)

Demo Size (MB)

AIX 1,450 260
HP-UX 1,300 260
Solaris 1,600 260

 

Operating System Requirements

 

 

PLM Software Requirements

 

If the corresponding products are installed for CATIA/ENOVIA interoperability purposes, the following levels are requested:

 

ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM V4 1.6

Note: ENOVIA VPLM ENOVIAVPM 1.5 level is not supported

ENOVIA 3D COM V5R17
ENOVIA LCA V5R17

Note: ENOVIA LCA and DBFLCA access method are not supported with Version 4 Release 2.5 GA. It will be supported with next maintenance delivery of Version 4 Release 2.5.

 

You will find information about PLM Data Compatibility in the PLM Data Compatibility page.