HFSS supports the following operating systems:
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Windows•
LinuxFor details regarding which revisions of each of these operating systems are supported; as well as, memory and disk requirements and known issues at the time of shipping, consult the read me file shipped with this release of the software by clicking the link below:
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On all systems when you run HFSS for the first time (that is, with no project directory specified in the registry), or if the project directory or the temp directory does not exist, HFSS displays a dialog that asks you to set the project and temp directories. For the temp directory, there is a comment ask-ing you to ensure that adequate disk space is available.
HFSS 13 requires at least FLEXlm for Ansoft v10.8.5 license server.
Windows
Supported Platforms
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Windows XP Professional (32-bit and 64-bit)•
Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit)•
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (32-bit and 64-bit)Note If you attempt to run HFSS and get a message reporting a corrupted license file, please contact Ansoft.
Note HFSS displays a warning message if the license file expires within 15 days.
Note All operating systems must have 32-bit OpenGL libraries installed regardless of whether the OS is 32-bit or 64-bit.
Users with the appropriate Windows OS can take advantage of potentially all the installed RAM up to a limit of 3 GB on 32-bit PCs. Doing so also requires setting up the appropriate OS boot.ini switch (/3GB) to tell the OS that 3 GB is to be used for application space and only one GB for the OS kernel and related overhead.
64-bit System Requirements Minimum System Requirements:
Supported processors: AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support Hard Drive Space (for HFSS software): 200 MB
RAM: 2 MB
Recommended Minimum Configuration (for Optimal Performance)
Supported processors: AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support Video card: 128-bit SVGA or PCI Express video card Hard Drive Space (for HFSS software and temporary files): 700 MB
RAM: 8 GB
Increasing RAM on a 32-Bit Windows Vista PC
If you are running the Windows Vista 32-bit Operating System, you can take advantage of poten-tially all the installed RAM up to a limit of 3GB on 32-bit machines. On Windows Vista, the /3gb switch has been replaced with an option called increaseuserva. You must edit its value using the bcdedit utility.
If you type bcdedit from a Windows command prompt, you will see the current values for the Boot Manager and Boot Loader. If you do not have increaseuserva set, then you will not see this line in the boot loader output.
To set increaseuserva to 3GB:
1. Open a Command Prompt window.
2. Type bcdedit /set increaseuserva 3072 in the Command Prompt window and press Enter.
To delete the increaseuserva setting, which will revert the OS back to 2GB:
1. Open a Command Prompt window.
2. Type bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva in the Command Prompt window and press Note If you are using the NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR/EX video card on Windows 2000 or
Windows XP, you should also download Version 40.41 or greater video driver, available for download at http://www.nvidia.com.
Warning Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) is supported in limited capacity for this release.
Ansoft will attempt to assist with any problems or questions you may have but cannot guarantee full compatibility with Windows Vista.
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Linux
If you attempt to open an HFSS v9 project in Linux, you receive an error message that the project must first be converted to HFSS v11. This must be done using the -BatchSave command on a non-Linux system running HFSS v11. See the discussion here.
Supported Platforms
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 and v5•
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v10 and v11.32-bit System Requirements Minimum System Requirements:
Processor: All fully compatible 686 (or later) instruction set processors, 500 MHz Hard Drive Space (for HFSS software): 200 MB
RAM: 512 MB
Recommended Minimum Configuration (for Optimal Performance):
Processor: All fully compatible 786 (or later) instruction set processors, 2 GHz Hard Drive Space (for HFSS software and temporary files): 700 MB
RAM: 4 GB
64-bit System Requirements Minimum System Requirements:
Supported processors: AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support Hard Drive Space (for HFSS software): 200 MB
Note You must edit this value as an administrator. If you have User Access Control enabled, then you must start the command prompt in elevated mode. To do this, find the Command Prompt in the Windows Start menu, right-click on it, and choose Run as Administrator.
The MainWin Control Panel appears.
2. Double-click on the Printers icon to start the MainWin Printers panel.
3. Then double-click on the Add New Printer icon.
This starts the Add Printer Wizard.
4. Select the Let the wizard search for printers radio button and click Next.
5. In the Identify your Unix Printer dialog do one of the following:
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If your printer is listed, select it.•
If your printer is not listed, you will need to cancel and get someone with root permission to setup a printer queue on your machine (and then you will need to come back and run this wizard later).6. Click Next.
The Print Command dialog appears.
7. Change the Print Command only if instructed to do so by your user administrator.
8. Click Next.
The Choose PPD File dialog appears.
9. Select your printer manufacturer and model from the list or use the Choose File button to browse to a PPD file provided by your printer manufacturer. Click Next.
The Printer Name dialog appears.
10. Enter a Name to identify the printer. Click Next.
11. Choose whether this printer should be the default and click Next.
12. Choose whether you would like to print a test page and click Next.
13. In the Finish Adding New Printer dialog, verify the printer setup information. If the informa-tion is incorrect, use the Back button to return to the appropriate dialog and correct the entry. If the information is correct, click Finish to complete the setup of your printer.
With a print queue setup, and the printer added, you should then see the printer when running the software.
Note On Solaris you setup a new print queue by running "lpadmin" (as root). On Red Hat Linux, you can run 'System Settings/Printing' to launch printconf-gui (as root).