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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Installation Process
- Stand-Alone Installation
- Network Administration and Deployment
- Installation Questions
- General Installation Questions
- What if I have lost my serial number or product key?
- Why do I need to activate a product after installation?
- Can I install Autodesk products from a website?
- How do I register and activate Autodesk Navisworks?
- How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network or network to stand-alone?
- Where can I find product license information after installation?
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- When performing a Typical installation, what gets installed?
- How do I share the Autodesk Navisworks settings on a site and project basis?
- How do I change which exporter plugins are installed?
- Deployment and Networking Questions
- Where should deployments be located?
- When should I select all products for the administrative image, and can I add products later?
- Where can I check if service packs are available for my software?
- How do I choose between 32-bit and 64-bit deployments?
- Where do I find my server name?
- What is an administrative image (MSI) file?
- How do I extract an MSP file?
- How should I configure a network license server for a firewall
- Licensing Questions
- Uninstall and Maintenance Questions
- How can I see what is included in a default installation?
- Is it possible to change the installation folder when adding or removing features?
- How do I install tools and utilities after installing my product?
- When should I reinstall the product instead of repairing it?
- Do I need the original media to reinstall my product?
- When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my system?
- General Installation Questions
- Glossary
- Index
Before you begin installing the program on a network, make sure that your
servers and client workstations meet the minimum recommended hardware
and software requirements for a deployment.
Whether the Windows operating system is the 32-bit or the 64-bit version is
automatically detected when installing Autodesk Navisworks. You can choose
which versions of Autodesk Navisworks will be installed.
See the following tables for administrative image, license server, and client
workstation system requirements.
Hardware and software requirements for the location of the administrative
image
RequirementHardware/Software
10 GBHard disk
Hardware and software requirements for client machine
RequirementHardware/Software
Microsoft
®
Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Home Basic,
Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate (re-
commended)
Operating System
Microsoft
®
Windows Vista
®
SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit) Home
Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate
Microsoft
®
Windows XP SP3 (32-bit) Home, or Profession-
al
Microsoft
®
Windows XP SP2 (64-bit) Professional
Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer
®
7.0 or later
Web browser
AMD Athlon
™
, 3.0 GHz or faster (minimum); Intel
®
Pentium
®
4, 3.0 GHz or faster (recommended) - with
SSE2 technology
Processor
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