Operating System
●Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise
●Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
●Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
●Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
●Microsoft Windows 8/8.1
●Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 Pro
●Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise
CPU Type
For 32-bit AutoCAD Mechanical 2015:
●Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual core processor, 3 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
For 64-bit AutoCAD Mechanical 2015:
●AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology
●AMD Opteron™ with SSE2 technology
●Intel® Xeon® with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
●Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
Memory
2 GB RAM minimum (3 GB recommended for 32-bit, 8 GB recommended for 64-bit)
Display Resolution
1,024 x 768 (1,600 x 1,050 or higher recommended) display with true color
Display Card
Windows display adapter capable of 1024x768 with True Color capabilities. DirectX® 9 or DirectX 11 compliant card recommended but not required.
Disk Space
Installation 6 GB
Network
●Deployment via Deployment Wizard
●The license server and all workstations that will run applications dependent on network licensing must run TCP/IP protocol
●Either Microsoft or Novell TCP/IP protocol stacks are acceptable. Primary login on workstations may be Netware or Windows
●In addition to operating systems supported for the application, the license server will run on the Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2008, and 2008 R2
●Citrix® XenApp™ 6.5 FP1
Pointing Device
MS-Mouse compliant device
Digitizer
WINTAB support
Plotter/Printer
Same as AutoCAD Mechanical 2013-2014 — system printer and HDI support
Media (DVD)
Download and installation from DVD
Browser
Windows Internet Explorer® 9.0 (or later)
Side-by-side Install
Supported
ToolClips Media Player
Adobe® Flash® Player v10 or up
.NET Framework
.NET Framework Version 4.5
Additional requirements for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling
CPU Type
Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology; Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 2.0 GHz or higher
Note: 64-bit Operating Systems are recommended if you are working with Large Datasets, Point Clouds and 3D Modeling.
Memory
3 GB or greater for 32-bit, 8 GB RAM or greater for 64-bit
Disk Space
6 GB free hard disk available, not including installation requirements
Display Card
1280x1024 True Color video display adapter 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Direct3D®-capable workstation class graphics card.