System Requirements
System requirements for all SpaceClaim products.
Operating Systems:
Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ or later
Microsoft® Windows 7
SpaceClaim is not supported on virtual platforms (see note below). Intel-based Apple hardware running native Windows using Boot Camp is subject to the same hardware requirements as other Intel-based hardware.
Video Card:
Requires Full DirectX® 9c, Shader Model 3.0 hardware support, 64 MB of graphics memory or higher, 32 bits per pixel, 1024x768 minimum resolution. Please ensure that you have the latest graphics driver for your card and that Direct3D Acceleration is enabled (use the 'dxdiag' tool to check this).
The following commonly used video cards support the above requirements (1):
Radeon®:
ATI® Radeon R300, R420, R520, R600, or R700 series.
Radeon 9x00 cards (9700, 9800, …) or newer
NVIDIA®:
NVIDIA GeForce® FX, 6, 7, or 8 series. NVIDIA FX5200s or newer
AMD™:
AMD FireGL™ T2-128 or higher (including the ‘Mobility’ series for laptops)
Video Requirements Diagnostic Tool
This downloadable tool will automatically check that your video hardware and configuration meets SpaceClaim requirements
CPU:
Pentium® 4 2.0 GHZ or Athlon® 2000+ or faster, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
RAM:
Minimum: 512MB RAM (32-bit), 1Gb RAM (64-bit)
Recommended: 2GB RAM or higher, 256MB of graphics memory
Other:
2GB of available disk space(2)
DVD drive(3)
Microsoft Internet Explorer® 5.5 or higher(4)
CD drive (only for CD installation)
2 Button Mouse with Wheel
USB Spaceball (Optional)
Multi-touch:
Supported hardware list
Note regarding Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5:
SpaceClaim requires .NET 3.5, and an installer for .NET 3.5 is included within the SpaceClaim installer.
It is possible in some cases that a corrupt version of .NET will be detected as the correct version by the SpaceClaim installer. If this happens, SpaceClaim will be installed, but will not run properly. This is primarily a concern on Windows XP and Windows Vista, because .NET 3.5 is included in the installation of Windows 7. To remedy this, please manually install .NET 3.5 using Microsoft's web site, Microsoft Update or Windows Update. On some occasions, this may involve cleaning the .NET installation by uninstalling any .NET components and re-installing them all. More details can be found on Microsoft's web site here.
Once the .NET 3.5 installation is successful, the SpaceClaim installation should proceed normally.
Note on virtual platforms:
Users report successfully operating SpaceClaim on VMware Workstation 7.x and Player 3.x.
(1) SpaceClaim does not certify or recommend specific graphic cards
(2) TraceParts requires 3Gb additional free disk space to support all component libraries
(3) Required for installing TraceParts
(4) Required for running TraceParts