Abaqus for CATIA V5 Version 2.5 System Information

Supported platforms
Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating systems on any Intel hardware platform supported by CATIA V5 are required.

CATIA V5 requirements
Abaqus for CATIA V5 is a plug-in application to CATIA V5. Use the version compatibility matrix to identify corresponding release levels.

Licensing of either the CATIA GPS or the AFC Complete simulation product is required as a prerequisite to run Abaqus for CATIA V5. If you are using Abaqus for CATIA V5 with a license for GPS, other CATIA V5 licenses are necessary to allow access to some functionality. Some examples of additional license requirements are described in the following table:

If you are using Abaqus for CATIA V5 with licenses for AFC Complete, you do not need any other CATIA V5 simulation licenses. The AFC Complete licenses provide access to all Abaqus for CATIA V5 functionality.

Some Abaqus for CATIA V5 functionality requires support from specific types of geometry. You need the appropriate CATIA V5 licenses to create this geometry, as described in the following table:

Licensing

Abaqus for CATIA V5 and Abaqus for CATIA V5 Complete use the FLEXnet network license manager from Macrovision Corporation. A license server and a valid license file are required. You can use an existing Abaqus FLEXnet license server, or you can install the license server from the installation CD.

• FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Version 10.8
• Obtaining Host ID for FLEXlm licensing

Abaqus analysis products

Abaqus for CATIA V5 Version 2.5-1 is intended for use with Abaqus Version 6.6; however, Abaqus for CATIA V5 Version 2.5-1 is also compatible with Abaqus Version 6.5.

Abaqus/Standard or Abaqus/Explicit is required to obtain simulation results but can be installed on machines separate from the client machine.

System resource requirements

The disk space requirement is 150 MB for the application, including 50 Mb for the optional searchable HTML documentation.