Hardware and Software Requirements

Robot has the following hardware and software requirements:

HARDWARE / SOFTWARE	REQUIREMENTS
Operating system	Microsoft^® Windows^® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional Microsoft^® Windows^® 8 Pro, Enterprise
Browser	Microsoft ^® Internet Explorer ^® 8.0 or later
Processors	Detailed list not defined (required support of SSE2 or higher instruction set)
Memory	3 GB RAM for 32-bit OS 8 GB RAM for 64-bit OS
Display	1280 x 1024 monitor and display adapter capable of 24-bit color Dedicated video card with hardware support for OpenGL ^® spec 1.4 or later and support for DirectX ^® 9 or later
Disk Space	1 GB free disk space for the installation (8 GB if not installed from DVD) + 5 GB free disk space left after installation
Pointing Device	MS-Mouse compliant
Media (DVD)	Download and Installation from DVD
Internet connection	Internet connection for registration and cloud licensing/analysis if used
Additional requirements	For Robot™ Extension Spreadsheet Calculator additionally Microsoft ^® Office Excel ^® 2007 or 2010, 32-bit.

To correctly print Robot calculation notes, you must have a word processor supporting *.rtf (Rich Text Format) format files, such as MS Word version 6.0 or higher, or WordPad.

The most important features of Robot include:

A graphic editor that can define a structure completely. You can also load .DXF format files of the structure’s geometry that has been prepared in a different graphic program
Graphically displays the designed structure and various calculation results simultaneously in several windows
Calculates (designs) one structure while designing another structure (multithreading),
Performs static and dynamic structure analysis,
Assigns bar types while creating the structure instead of assigning them in code modules
Custom printout composition (calculation notes, screen captures, transferring objects to other programs).

Robot has several modules that are each responsible for a specific step in the structure design: creating the model, analyzing the structure, and designing.