System Requirements

System Requirements for the Factory Design Utilities and the Factory Design Suite.

The Factory Design Utilities are available in the following Autodesk^® products:

• AutoCAD^® Architecture
• AutoCAD^® Mechanical
• AutoCAD^® MEP
• Inventor^® Professional
• Navisworks^® Manage
• Navisworks^® Simulate (FDS Premium)
• Vault Professional

Operating System:

• 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1
• 64-bit Microsoft Windows 8.1 with Update KB2919355
• 64-bit Microsoft Windows 10

CPU Type

• Recommended: Intel® Xeon® E3 or Core i7 or equivalent, 3.0 GHz or greater
• Minimum: 64-bit Intel® or AMD, 2 GHz or faster

Memory

• Recommended: 20 GB RAM or more, 250 GB free disk space or more
• Minimum: 8 GB RAM for less than 500 part assemblies, 100 GB free disk space
  Note: Autodesk recommends settings which allow Microsoft Windows to manage virtual memory as needed. There should always be at least twice as much free hard disk space as system memory (RAM).

Graphics Hardware

• Recommended: Microsoft® Direct3D 11® capable graphics card or higher
• Minimum: Microsoft® Direct3D 10® capable graphics card or higher
• Exceptions: OpenGL 3.0 or higher is required for Autodesk® ReCap®

Display Resolution

• 1280 x 1024 or higher
• Recommended scaling: 100%, 125%, 150% or 200%.

Browser

• Windows Internet Explorer 9

Third Party Software

• Full local install of Microsoft® Excel 2010, 2013 or 2016 for iFeatures, iParts, iAssemblies, thread related commands, clearance/threaded hole creation, Global BOM, Parts Lists, Revision Tables, spreadsheet-driven designs and Studio animation of Positional Representations. Excel Starter®, Online Office 365® and OpenOffice® are not supported.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 or later

Pointing Device

• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device

Media

• USB 3.0

Network

Internet connection for access to cloud assets, online help, updates, and other features.