The following are the minimum system requirements for ArtiosCAD 14. Exceeding these requirements will in most cases lead to a performance increase. Running ArtiosCAD on a system that does not meet these requirements is not supported.
Intel® Core 2 Duo: 2.4 GHz, 2.4 GHz, required.
To fully take advantage of the 3D Data Exchange module, x86 64-bit processors are recommended, especially for importing files of over 100 MB in size. You will need to consider the 64-bit processors for future releases of ArtiosCAD.
ArtiosCAD is still a 32-bit application. All other uses other than 3D Data Exchange modules will require at a minimum x86 32-bit processor. ArtiosCAD will still run on a 64-bit processor but as a 32-bit application.
You need at least 5 GB free disk space for the ArtiosCAD application and 500 MB free disk space on the system partition.
If you are using the ArtiosCAD Enterprise client, please reserve an additional 30 GB for the ArtiosCAD application, including the local cache. If your workspaces are large and/ or the cache contents are not purged regularly, you should consider reserving more than 30 GB for the local disk.
ArtiosCAD 3D requires a display adapter that is OpenGL and Direct-X compliant.
If CAD-X is used in a server environment, the graphics card still must match the memory requirement above. Server-class machines generally do not have high quality or memory graphics cards as standard issue.
Minimum screen resolution 1024 x 768 resolution at 16-bit color depth.
If you purchased the ArtiosCAD Rubber Nesting feature, ArtiosCAD requires a USB port.
A 3-button mouse is recommended. A 2-button mouse can be used with feature limitations.
ArtiosCAD Enterprise 14 uses HTTP as its core communication protocol. For optimal performance, do not drop HTTP to a lower quality of service (QOS), or at least ensure that HTTP traffic directed to the enterprise web server receives higher network priority.
When deploying fractional T1s for cost considerations, expect lower performance.
Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion is supported, but please be aware that Esko doesn't test all combinations of MacOSX and Parallels Desktop/VMware Fusion.
Only on an Intel® Mac. Some limitations apply. Direct3D is the preferred 3D rendering mode.
Mac Bootcamp has been tested to a certain point but is not officially supported for this ArtiosCAD release.
A situation exists by which HP machines configured with the UEFI firmware crash with a blue screen when ArtiosCAD is installed. At the moment, this is known to happen on HP machines only and is a system crash. Until Esko can investigate the situation, the suggestion would be to build HP machines with the legacy BIOS.
Go to http://help.esko.com/knowledgebase and search for article KB83170238 for description and resolution.
For example: a German-language SQL Server 2012 must be installed on a German-language operating system. A German-language SQL Server 2012 can *not* be installed on a French operating system.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210665.aspx for more details.
For new installations on a 32-bit operating system, you will need to download SQL Server Express 2012 32-bit edition from the Microsoft website, and manually install and configure your database before ArtiosCAD can be installed.
The DBA must create an instance called Esko, set the sa password to the default password, create a case-insensitive database called ArtiosCADdb, and an ODBC entry called ArtiosCAD pointing to the Esko instance.
ArtiosCAD 14 will run as a standard Windows application.
As of 14.0.1, ArtiosIO will now run on Windows 7 and later OSs.
ArtiosCAD 14.0.1 will be the last ArtiosCAD version that will be supported on Windows Vista and Server 2008 OSs. Users will need to migrate to windows 7 or 8 and Server 2008 R2 or higher with the latest OS service packs.
Due to a Microsoft incompatibility, if a user wishes to upgrade to ArtiosCAD 14 on Vista or Server 2008, the user must install ArtiosCAD 14.0.1. ArtiosCAD 14 will not install.
Typical ArtiosCAD installations can be Standalone (meaning no other systems are required for ArtiosCAD to work and no configurations are shared), Server (meaning it shares configuration, database and license files with other machines on the network) or Standard Client (meaning it gets its configuration and license information from an ArtiosCAD Server on the network and shares a common database residing on that server). Custom installation allows distribution of ArtiosCAD Server functions to two or three machines.
Why is ArtiosCAD not available on Mac OS when other software products you sell (Studio Visualizer) work on Mac OS?
Will ArtiosCAD 14.x.x work with Windows 10 when it is released (July 29th 2015)?
Our R&D team is still performing tests to evaluate the compatibility with Windows 10.
Any updates on Windows 10?
Windows 10 is not supported to run ArtiosCAD 14.1.1.
Is windows 10 supported in 14.1.2?
regarding the support of Windows 10.