Supported Platforms for Pointwise CFD Meshing Software

Pointwise supports the most popular desktop workstations in use today by CAE engineers. The application supports each platform's native look-and-feel and provides 3D graphics through the OpenGL industry standard. Pointwise's native project file is based on HDF-5 and portable across all supported platforms.

	Hardware	32-bit	64-bit	Details
Microsoft Windows	Intel AMD
Linux	Intel AMD
Mac OS X	Intel PowerPC

Requirements for All Platforms

Support for 3D Mice - Two-Handed Power Pointwise supports the 3D mouse from 3Dconnexion as an optional image manipulation device. One hand pulls, pushes and twists the 3D mouse to manipulate the 3D model while the other hand navigates the GUI with a traditional mouse, increasing productivity by more than 20% and decreasing traditional mouse clicks by up to 50%. (See 3Dconnexion's web site for the details.)

Minimum Requirements:

• 256 Mbytes RAM
• 100 Mbytes disk space
• OpenGL capable color display
• Ethernet card
• 1280x1024 screen resolution
• 3D hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics
• 24-bit RGB, double-buffered graphics

Up-to-date graphic accelerator driver software is essential for proper operation of Pointwise.

Microsoft Windows

Operating System	32-bit	64-bit
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP

Linux

Operating System	32-bit	64-bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

• Library Packages
• libstdc++-3.4.5-2
• glibc-2.3.4-2.19
• libgcc-3.4.5-2
• libg2c.so.0 (32-bit only)
• libf2c 3.4.6 (32-bit only)
• xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.25.1
• Note: There are known problems running Pointwise on some installations of openSUSE.

Mac OS X

• Operating System Version
• OS X 10.5 or higher
• Hardware
• Intel
• PowerPC
• Architecture
• 32-bit
• 64-bit