Edgecam - System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Microsoft® Windows 7® (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit) Business,
Enterprise, Ultimate Operating System

Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP1) (32-bit or 64-bit) Business,
Enterprise, Ultimate Operating System

Windows® XP Professional (SP2 and SP3) or
Professional x64 Edition (SP2) Operating System

• Edgecam and Edgecam Part Modeler will install and run on the 'home' editions of these operating systems, including Windows XP Home Edition, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium. However this is not recommended and we cannot guarantee to fix any Edgecam or Edgecam Part Modeler issues specifically related to these operating systems. We recommend you install the latest service packs for the supported operating systems.

• For keyless network licensing the Sentinel RMS license server runs as a system service on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. The Sentinel RMS license server must not be installed on a virtual server.

Minimum Specifications

• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, 2 GHz or faster, Intel® Xeon™, Intel® Core™, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Opteron™, AMD Phemnom™ or later

• 1 GB RAM for Windows XP, 2 GB for Windows Vista and 4GB for 64-bit operating systems

• 10 GB free disk space for the Edgecam Installation

• Graphics card

• OpenGL compliant
• Minimum 128 MB memory for wireframe systems
• Minimum 256 MB memory for solid model systems
• For the latest information on recommended graphics cards please refer to the   Support page of the Edgecam web site

• 17" Colour monitor (1280 x 1024 screen resolution)

• DVD drive (note new product releases are provided on DVD)

• Mouse including wheel (Intellimouse)

• SpaceMouse/SpaceBall (optional)

• Network card

• Internet Explorer 6 or above

• USB port for the Edgecam security key (unless using keyless licensing)

The Edgecam installer will install the following items if they are not already present on your system:

• .NET Framework version 1.1

• .NET Framework version 2.0

• Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 (for Edgecam ToolStore)

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Setup

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Setup