Solid Edge System Requirements

Operating System Requirements and Information

The current release of Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology has been certified to run on the following:

• Windows XP Professional operating system (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows Vista Business or Vista Enterprise operating system (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit). Requires Solid Edge ST2 MP1 (102.00.01.004) or later
• Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE 6.0 minimum)

The 64-bit version of Solid Edge requires Microsoft 64-bit operating system loaded on Intel EM64T or AMD64 processors.  (More details are below under System Resource Requirements and Information.)
Solid Edge stops certifying new releases against an operating system shortly after Microsoft drops mainstream support for it. Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 are unsupported operating systems. Solid Edge will not install on these operating systems. It is not recommended that you run Solid Edge on Server operating systems.

Solid Edge will not install on machines without Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. Internet Explorer is not required to be the default browser.
Solid Edge is not supported on Intel Itanium processors.

Solid Edge has also been certified to run on 64-bit Windows XP or 64-bit Windows Vista or 64-bit Windows 7 as a 32-bit application.

Recommended System Configuration:

• 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
• At least 2 GB RAM
• True Color (32-bit) or 16 million colors (24-bit)
• Screen resolution set to 1280 x 1024

Minimum System Configuration:

• 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
• At least 1 GB RAM
• 65K colors
• Minimum Resolution: 1024x768
• Disk space required for installation: 1.9 GB

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Recommended System Configuration:

• 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• Windows Vista Business or Enterprise Service Pack 1 or 2
• At least 2 GB RAM
• True Color (32-bit) or 16 million colors (24-bit)
• Screen resolution set to 1280 x 1024

Windows Vista Aero© requires a DirectX 9-class graphics processor that supports the following:

• WDDM driver
• Pixel Shader 2.0
• 32 bits per pixel
• 256 MB graphics memory

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Minimum System Configuration:

• 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• Windows Vista Business or Enterprise
• Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate
• At least 1 GB RAM
• 65K colors
• Minimum Resolution: 1024x768
• Disk space required for installation: 1.9 GB

Vista Recommendations

On Vista, it is strongly recommended that you turn off User Account Control (UAC).  If UAC is on, you may experience slow network connects, problems with Solid Edge installation and product removal,  problems with Solid Edge licensing, problems with Insight web parts and perhaps other problems.  To turn off UAC, go to Control Panel - User Accounts and Family Safety - User Accounts - Turn User Account Control On or Off.

It is strongly recommended that you turn off Windows Vista Aero© if you will be working with View and Markup or the Solid Edge Viewer. To turn off Windows Vista Aero© follow these steps:

Go to Control Panel.

If Control Panel Home is selected at the far left of the screen then:
    Click Appearance and Personalization, click Personalization, and then click Window Color and Appearance.

If "Classic View" is selected at the far left of the screen then:
    Click Personalization, and then click Window Color and Appearance.

If you see Window Color and Appearance at the top of the window, then you should have "Open classic appearance properties for more color options" at the bottom of the window.  Click it.  In the Appearance Settings window, change the color scheme from Windows Aero and click OK.
If you don't see Window Color and Appearance, but see Appearance Settings, then check to make sure the Color scheme is not set to Windows Aero and click OK.

Note:  If you see the Appearance Settings dialog box instead of the Window Color and Appearance window, then the theme might not be set to Windows Vista, the color scheme might not be set to Windows Aero, or the computer might not meet the minimum hardware requirements for running Windows Aero.

Display System Requirements and Information

Solid Edge will run on graphics drivers that support Windows XP or Windows Vista or Windows 7. Contact your graphics driver manufacturer to determine whether their graphics adapter/driver support these operating systems.

For optimal performance, it is recommended to use a professional graphics card that is designed for CAD applications. For information about cards used in testing Solid Edge and results, refer to http://support.ugs.com/online_library/certification/.

At least a 256MB graphic card is recommended when working with large assemblies or complex parts.

Note that running with extremely high screen resolution and color depth increases the memory requirements on the system and may result in apparent performance degradation. If experienced, reconfigure the display system to the recommended resolution and color depth for improved performance.

When running Solid Edge, if you experience an abnormally high abort rate, parts disappearing, or other graphic anomalies you may not be using the appropriate graphics driver. For more details, visit http://support.ugs.com/online_library/certification/.
Also setting Display Fonts to Large Fonts or Extra Large Fonts (larger than 96 DPI) may cause some Solid Edge user interface items to not display as intended.  Recommendation to resolve these would be to use Normal Fonts (96 DPI)

A wide-screen ribbon layout has been added for Solid Edge ST2.  This new ribbon layout is optimal for horizontal screen resolutions set to 1920 or above.  Solid Edge automatically detects your resolution and sets the ribbon layout to wide-screen starting at horizontal resolutions 1600 and above.  You will see some group collapsing on the right side of the Ribbon on resolutions between 1600 and 1920.