System requirements SCIA Engineer 19

In order to use SCIA Engineer version 19, your system must have the following system requirements.

HARDWARE COMPONENTS

  Minimum Advised
Processor

Intel Core-i5 or AMD Ryzen 3

Intel Core-i7 or AMD Ryzen 7

Memory (RAM)

8 GB

16 GB, or more

Graphics Controller

256 MB, supporting OpenGL

4 GB, or more

Free disk space

5 GB

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Resolution

1280 x 800 (4K Not supported)

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A 3D mouse is not supported.

 

SOFTWARE COMPONENTS

Supported Windows OS

Windows 2008 server 64 bit

Windows 2012 server 64 bit

Windows 7 32/64 bit

Windows 8.1 32/64 bit

Windows 10 32/64 bit

API link with Revit

(http://www.scia.net/revit)

SCIA Engineer 19 is compatible with:

Revit 2019, Revit 2020
API link with Tekla

SCIA Engineer 19 is compatible with:

Tekla Structures 2018

Tekla Structures 2018i

Tekla Structures 2019
Etabs

SCIA Engineer 19 is compatible with:

Etabs 9.2
IFC

SCIA Engineer 19 is compatible with:

IFC version 2x3

IFC4 (only import)
SDNF

SCIA Engineer 19 is compatible with:

SDNF version 2.0

SDNF version 3.0

 

Below you can find additional information concerning the hardware components.

PROCESSOR

For the processor two parameters are important: the number of cores and the clock frequency. When you perform a linear calculation, the number of cores is the main parameter that determines the speed of the calculation. In a nonlinear and eigenmode calculation, the clock frequency is the determining factor. Next to the previously mentioned calculation types, the design checks run multicore as well. We advise an Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 with at least 2.4 GHz.

MEMORY (RAM)

SCIA Engineer, the solver and the Engineering Report are 3 separate processes that each require memory to perform their actions. Next to these processes, also Windows (min. 1.5 GB) and all other applications take some memory in use as well. To not run out of memory when performing memory demanding calculations, we advise to have at least 16 GB of RAM in the computer.

GRAPHICS CONTROLLER

A minimum memory of 256 MB and the support of OpenGL is required to run SCIA Engineer. This means that SCIA can also be run with an onboard graphics card. For some models that are graphically more demanding, the onboard graphics card may fail to render the structure. For this reason, we advise a dedicated GPU (Graphical Processing Unit). A low to mid end GPU should be adequate.

HARD DISK DRIVE (HDD)

Every hard disk with a free disk space of 5 GB can be used to run SCIA Engineer. This does not mean that the HDD is not important. The read/write speed of the HDD has an influence on the performance of SCIA Engineer. In order to increase performance, we recommend an SSD (Solid State Drive). Some available SSD types are: