HP 8730W 1

[CATPart]

Hi,

I've been away from catia for about a year, and now I'm coming back but I need a new PC... I was thinking of HP 8730W mobile workstation.

Does somebody have experience with this laptop?, I will use it for assemblies of cca. 200-250 MB.

I don't have the opportunity to try it before buying.

 

[DBezaire]

Welcome back Catpart - I would recommend a 64bit laptop, max it at 4gb ram, does it have an SATA drive in it (this is a fairly new option to the laptop world). There is a problem with LUM license management. You can not check out a license from a server. You would need a nodelock license.
I will check out the stats of your machine tomorrow.

Regards,
Derek

 

[CATPart]

Hi Derek,

I hope that I didn't forgot too much

My fear is that I buy it than find out that with large assemblies is not possible to work.

8730W Specs are:
Intel Core2Duo T9400 2,53GHz
4 GB
SATA 320GB
NVIDIA Quadro FX2700 512MB

 

[PeterGuy]

DBezaire - R19 has 64bit versions of the lum kernel mode driver and can offline licences on 64bit windows, which should make the licence available to any other release of CATIA on the box.

 

[Akesson]

Hi,

I have a 8730w with Windows XP 32 and 3Gb Switch
I use Windows XP 32 because I check out my license from our license server (we use R18).

Intel Core2 Extreme 3,06GHz
4 GB
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M 1GB

I think it's a really great laptop. The graphic card makes Catia V5 run smooth even with large assemblies.

PeterGuy - Do I have to install LUM on a machine (license server) with 64bit Windows to be able to use the offline licenses on a 64bit laptop?

 

[PeterGuy]

No lum is lum but I would avoid 64bit for licence servers as it can cause offlining problems, it is just the client side of offlining on 64bit that I consider as fixed.

 

[DBezaire]

Thanks PeterGuy

 

[Akesson]

Ok,

So I can check out a offline license (Catia V5 R19) to a Windows XP 64bit laptop from a Windows 32 bit on license server?

Thanks

 

[PeterGuy]

yes, it certainly worked when we did it. If you look at the R19 x64 install media it has the file LUMDriver_64.sys rather than the usual LUMDriver.sys.

 

[Akesson]

Brilliant!

 

[CBunes]

You can also extract the required files Nodelock Key Management needs to run from an R19 installation and run this as a separate tool on a machine with R18 (64-bit) installed. I did just this the other day. Saves a lot of installation hassle really.

Extract the following files from your C:\Program files\Dassault Systemes\B19\intel_a\code\bin folder:
CATAutoItf.dll
CATDlgStandard.dll
CATDumpConfig.dll
CATNodelockDlg.dll
CATNodelockMgt.exe
CATNodelockMgtB.exe
CATNodelockUtil.dll
CATSysAllocator.dll
CATSysFile.dll
CATSysMultiThreading.dll
CATSysRunBrw.dll
CATSysTS.dll
CATVBAInfra.dll
DI0PANV2.dll
JS0FM.dll
JS0GROUP.dll
JS0SPEXT.dll
VBAIntegration.dll

(These are the ones Nodelock Key Management stated it required on our system. Be sure to copy any other remaining files if your system requires anything else.)

Paste all of these in a separate folder (i.e C:\Program files\Dassault Systemes\B18\Nodelock\)

Create a shortcut to the new CATNodelockMgt.exe file like this: "C:\Program files\Dassault Systemes\B18\Nodelock\CATNodelockMgt.exe" -env myenvfilenamehere -direnv "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv"

You should now have a standalone license extraction program for your R18 installation on a 64-bit system.