System Requirements

Version

Engineering Base 2024

Date

December 2023

Hardware Requirements

 

Processor  

Up-to-date x64 Processor with at least 2.0 GHz

RAM  

16 GB RAM per Engineering Base instance

Hard disk  

Approximately 8 GB are needed for the installation of all Engineering Base components

We recommend to use an SSD with at least 1 TB

Software Requirements

 

 

Operating system

  • Windows 11

  • Windows 10 (x64)

  • Windows Server 2022

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows Server 2016

Home Editions (Windows 11 and Windows 10) are not supported!

Browser

Microsoft Edge

Components

The Windows Installer will be updated, if required.

Please install Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Visio before you install Engineering Base.

 

The SQL Server versions from the following list are supported for the use with Engineering Base:

  • SQL Server 2014

  • SQL Server 2016

  • SQL Server 2016 SP1

  • SQL Server 2017

  • SQL Server 2019

  • SQL Server 2022

SQL Server Express-Editions are not supported by Engineering Base.

If you have purchased Engineering Base including SQL Server licenses, setups are available for the installation of SQL Server for its use with Engineering Base.

Using this setup, you can also configure an existing SQL Server instance for Engineering Base.

 

As from SQL Server 2016 SP1 SQL Management Studio will no longer be installed with SQL Server and has to be downloaded from Microsoft and installed separately.

 

The Visio versions from the following list are supported for the use with Engineering Base:

  • Visio 2016 (x86)

  • Visio 2019 (x86 and x64)

  • Visio 2021 (x86 and x64)

  • Visio 365 (x86 and x64)

  • Visio 365 (Online Plan 2): AUCOTEC recommends to use the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel.

If a supported version of Visio is already installed on your system, it can directly be used with Engineering Base.

If you have purchased Engineering Base including licenses for Visio, setups are available for the installation of Visio for its use with Engineering Base.

 

  • Engineering Base will install the .Net Framework 4.5 if it does not exist.

  • For some functions in Engineering Base an installation of MS-Excel is required on the client PC.