Supported Operating Systems

32-bit

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate/Enterprise ¹
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3 or higher) ²

64-bit

• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate/Enterprise ¹
• Windows XP Professional X64 (SP2 or higher)

¹ For Autodesk® SketchBook Designer 2013, Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium is not supported.

² For Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler 2013, Microsoft® Windows® XP is not supported.

Supported CPU Type

Baseline Recommendation

• Single- or Multi-Core Intel® Pentium®, Xeon®, or i-Series processor or AMD® equivalent with SSE2 technology. Highest affordable CPU speed rating recommended.

Exception

Autodesk® Quantity Takeoff 2012

• 800 MHz Intel® Pentium® 4, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor (or faster)

Recommended Memory

Baseline Recommendation

• 4 GB RAM (8 GB RAM recommended on 64-Bit OS)

Exceptions

Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2013, Autodesk Navisworks® Simulate 2013, and AutoCAD-Based Products

• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)

Recommended Graphics Hardware

Baseline Recommendation

Basic Graphics

• Display adapter capable of 24-bit color

Advanced Graphics

• 256 MB Microsoft® DirectX® 10 capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 as recommended by Autodesk

Exceptions

Autodesk® Showcase 2013 or Autodesk® SketchBook Designer 2013

• Certified hardware-accelerated graphics card with a minimum of 512 MB graphics memory (1 GB recommended) and DirectX® 9 support

Autodesk Navisworks® Manage 2013

• DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® capable graphics card with Shader Model 2 (minimum)

Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler 2013

• DirectX® 10 capable graphics card with 512 MB video memory, supporting 2x Antialiasing (2x AA)

Recommended Display Resolution

• 1,280 x 1,024 with true color

Recommended Hard Disk

• 36 GB of free space

Pointing Device

Baseline Recommendation

• Microsoft® Mouse or 3Dconnexion® compliant device

Exceptions

Autodesk® Showcase 2013

• Three-button mouse

Autodesk® SketchBook Designer 2013

• Intuos® 3 or higher tablet or Wacom Cintiq® active tablet highly recommended, using a tablet driver of 6.1.6-7 or higher. For Bamboo® users, a tablet driver of 5.2.4-5 is recommended.

Browser

Baseline Recommendation

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8.0 or higher

Media

• USB 2.0

Network

• Internet connection for full User Assistance Documentation and Subscription Web Services

Other

Baseline Recommendation

• Microsoft® .NET Framework Version 4.0 (included in Install)

Exception

Autodesk® Inventor® 2013

• Adobe® Flash® 10 or Higher. Microsoft® Excel® 2003 spreadsheet software through 2010 for iFeatures, iParts, iAssemblies, thread customization, and spreadsheet-driven designs

Autodesk® Robot Structural Analysis 2013

• For Robot™ Extension Spreadsheet Calculator additionally Microsoft® Excel® 2003 or later, 32-bit

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