SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

System requirements for AutoCAD Mechanical 2015

^[2]The system requirements for Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical 2015 are listed below in the table.

System requirements for AutoCAD Mechanical 2015
Operating System	Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, 7 Professional, 7 Home Premium Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, 8/8.1 Pro, 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.