PDM System Requirements

Client

Minimum

Recommended

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (CAD Editor)

Processor

Intel Pentium 4, 1.7GHz

Intel Core2 Duo, 1.8GHz

RAM

512 MB

2 GB

Hard drive (Free space)

512 MB

20 GB

Operating system

Windows XP SP2

Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7

Internet browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Contributor/Contributor Web and PDM Viewer

Processor

Intel Pentium 4, 1.7GHz

Intel Core2 Duo, 1.8GHz

RAM

512 MB

1 GB

Hard drive (Free space)

256 MB

10 GB

Operating system

Windows XP SP2

Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7

Internet browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2

Server

Minimum

Recommended

Archive

Intel Pentium 4, 1.7GHz

Quad Core Intel Xeon, 1,6GHz

RAM

1 GB

2 GB

Hard drive (Free space)

10 GB

200 GB

Operating system

Windows 2003 Server SP1 or higher

Windows 2003 Server SP1 or higher, or Windows 2008 Server

Database

Intel Xeon, 2,6GHz

Quad Core Intel Xeon, 2,0GHz

RAM

2 GB

4 GB

Hard drive (Free space)

10 GB

100 GB

Operating system

Windows 2003 Server SP1

Windows 2003 Server SP1, or Windows 2008 Server

Database Server 

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2, or Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Web

Intel Xeon, 2,6GHz

Quad Core Intel Xeon, 2,0GHz

RAM

1 GB

3 GB

Operating system

Windows 2003 Server SP1 and Internet Information Services (IIS)

Windows 2003 Server SP1 and

Internet Information Services (IIS)

• The SolidWorks Enterprise PDM server components can run on workstations running XP, but in a production environment, SolidWorks Corporation requires the use of a server-specific operating system.
• The minimum requirement is an absolute minimum. SolidWorks Corporation cannot guarantee system performance or behavior for installations running on configurations not meeting the minimum recommended levels.
• The hard drive requirements are solely dependent on the size of data stored in the system. Therefore, the actual requirements can exceed the values in this recommendation.
• The recommended configuration is based on a typical installation with approximately 20 users and approximately 60,000 stored documents.
• Prerequisites for installing any SolidWorks Enterprise PDM component are Windows Installer 3.1,MSXML 6, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SQL_DMO backward-compatibility drivers. These are automatically installed when running the SolidWorks Enterprise PDM setup. Client also has a prerequisite of Microsoft .Net 3 Framework.
• If using an administrative install image for client deployment, these components will not be installed automatically.
• As the Database Server of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM runs on SQL server, we do not recommend installing any instances of other applications on the database server.
• Note that client, database and archive server support both 32 and 64 bit operating systems, but web server currently supports 32 bit operating systems only.
• Starting with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2009 the product will only be available on DVDs.

• Windows 2003 Small Business Server Edition is not supported. Installation is blocked for SolidWorks Workgroup PDM Vault.