Students taking on-line courses are strongly encouraged to acquire a high-speed Internet connection at home to assist with timely completion of their studies. Oregon Tech students are automatically assigned an Oregon Tech email account, which is used for several communications with the student. In addition, it is often advantageous to be able to communicate with faculty or students on weekends or after work. As with any software, don’t use the minimum system requirements unless you don’t mind your system slowing to a crawl. Electronic communications have become an integral component of today's engineering environment and the ability to access electronic communication outside of work is often required. Firewalls can create difficulties with accessing information and downloading software. With that said, they list a minimum of 16GB of RAM, 64-bit architecture, minimum of 2TB HDD space, workstation graphics card and Windows 8+ or Linux (Red Hat, Suse are listed).
Again, this is a starting point and your requirements will depend on your users and data sets, testing with those users will provide the best guidance: Recommended Virtualization Platforms Virtualization Software Citrix XenServer v6. Students are strongly encouraged to acquire Internet access outside of their work environment. following system requirements for deploying CATIA in a virtual environment.
If the student desires a portable computer, a much less expensive machine can then be acquired for running applications other than CATIA. As such, it may be more economical to acquire a desktop computer for running CATIA V5. It may be expensive to acquire a portable computer with sufficient hardware to operate CATIA V5 in a reasonable manner. Their names are derived from the plane they are parallel to, relative to the part coordinate system: XY plane YZ plane ZX plane It is impossible to move or delete the planes.