Autodesk Showcase 2012 Workstations & Mobile Workstations Certification
Microsoft Windows Platform
L ast updated: May 31st 2011.

Contents

Readme First Whats New Important Notes Processor Support Workstations
Readme First The information contained in the Readme First document applies to all hardware certification for the Autodesk Media & Entertainment 2012 software product releases and should be consulted by all users prior to consulting the Certification charts.
Workstation Caveats and Limitations
Mobile Workstations Mobile Workstation Caveats and Limitations Operating System Dependent and Miscellaneous Issues Send Feedback on this Document

Whats New

Certification wave of the Autodesk Showcase 2012 software. New BOXX Tech systems were certified and some updates occurred within our Dell, Lenovo and Fujitsu Siemens computer inventory. Laptop hardware certification for the Autodesk Media & Entertainment 2012 software product releases is now complete.

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Autodesk Showcase 2012 Software Workstations & Mobile Workstations Certification Microsoft Windows

Important Notes

Please refer to the graphics hardware page to obtain further information on the graphics cards that have been certified for Autodesk Showcase 2012. Please refer to the hardware vendor site to get a list of all supported graphics cards for the workstations listed below All workstations and mobile workstations hardware certification done on Autodesk Showcase 2012 have been performed using the following configuration: o Dual screen at resolution of 1920x1200 (60Hz) o A minimum of 4 GB of RAM (workstations) 2 GB of RAM (laptops) o Virtual memory (swap file size) : maximum size set to 4 GB If you are experiencing additional issues not listed in this document, please search our support Knowledge Base or contact customer support (http://www.autodesk.com/showcase-support). It may be possible to successfully use Autodesk Showcase 2012 with a non-certified or partially certified configuration, but support and maintenance programs will be subject to the Autodesk support service guidelines. The graphics drivers specified in this document are the drivers that were used for the certification process. While it may be possible to use Autodesk Showcase successfully on earlier or later drivers, Autodesk cannot guarantee their performance or behavior. The same apply for the systems configuration described above.

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Processor Support
The following table provides a list of supported/certified processor for the Autodesk Showcase 2012 for Microsoft Windows software product releases.

Table Legend

Certified. Certified with caveats. Certification planned or in progress. Results coming shortly. Supported although not officially Certified in our lab. Hardware component falls below minimum system requirements to run the Autodesk product. Certification failed due to serious problems. No Certification planned OR not applicable. Not yet tested.
Processor Certification for Autodesk Showcase 2012 for Microsoft Windows

Processor

Certification

Specification

Intel processors Intel Xeon processor Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor Quad-Core Intel Xeon Dual-Core Intel Xeon Intel Core Duo processor Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor Intel Core2 Quad processor Intel Core 2 Extreme Intel Core 2 Duo Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile Intel Centrino processor AMD processors Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Athlon FX processor Athlon X2 processor for notebooks Athlon X2 Dual-Core Second-Generation AMD Opteron

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Processor Specification
AMD Opteron Quad-Core AMD Opteron

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Workstations
The following table provides a list of certified workstations for the Autodesk Showcase 2012 for Microsoft Windows software product releases.
Workstation Certification for Autodesk Showcase 2012 for Microsoft Windows

Workstation

Brand Model

Windows XP Professional

SP3 32-bit X64 SP2 64-bit
Windows Vista Business SP1

32-bit 64-bit

Windows 7
HP Z800 Workstation Z600 Workstation Z400 Workstation Z210 Workstation Z200 Workstation Z200 Workstation: Low Profile Dell Precision T1600 Workstation Precision T7500 Precision T3500 Precision T7400 Precision T3400 ThinkStation E30 Lenovo

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Workstation ThinkStation D20 ThinkStation S20 ThinkStation C20 ThinkStation D10 ThinkStation S10 3D Boxx 8550 Workstation 3D Boxx 8520 3D Boxx 7620 3D Boxx 4880 3D Boxx 4860 CELSIUS W480 Workstation CELSIUS W280 CELSIUS R670 CELSIUS R570 CELSIUS M470 CELSIUS M460

BOXX Fujitsu

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Workstation Caveats & Limitations
There are currently no workstation caveats / limitations to report for the current release of this Autodesk product. Note: Refer to the graphics Certification document for potential caveats that may apply to graphics card models similar to the one you have for your workstation.

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Mobile Workstations
The following table provides a list of certified mobile workstations for the Autodesk Showcase 2012 for Microsoft Windows software product releases.
Mobile Workstation Certifications for Autodesk Showcase 2012 for Microsoft Windows

Mobile Workstation

Brand Graphic Driver
SP3 32-bit X64 Edition SP2
HP EliteBook 8740w Mobile Workstation EliteBook 8740w NVIDIA Quadro 5000m XP: 266.58 Win7: 267.76 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800m NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800m AMD FirePro M8720 NVIDIA Quadro XP: 266.58 Win7: 267.76 EliteBook 8740w XP: 266.58 Win7: 267.76 EliteBook 8740w EliteBook 8540w 8.773.1.1 XP:

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FX 880M

266.58 Win7: 267.76

EliteBook 8540w
Nvidia Quadro FX 1800M AMD FirePro M5800 Nvidia Quadro FX 380M Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M Nvidia Quadro FX 2700M

ATI FireGL v5725

XP: 266.58 Win7: 267.76 8.773.1.1
EliteBook 8540w EliteBook 8440w EliteBook 8730w

EliteBook 8730w

EliteBook 8730w EliteBook 8530w EliteBook 8530w

Nvidia Quadro FX 770M

ATI FireGL v5700
Dell Precision M6600 Mobile Workstation NVIDIA Quadro 4000m 268.44

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Precision M6600
AMD FirePro M8900 graphics card NVIDIA Quadro 2000m AMD FirePro M5950 NVIDIA Quadro 5000m NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800m AMD FirePro M7740 AMD FirePro M7820 NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M Nvidia Quadro FX 1800M
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M ATI FirePro M7740 Nvidia Quadro FX 770M

8.8072

Precision M4600 Precision M4600 Precision M6500 Precision M6500

268.44

267.76
Precision M6500 Precision M6500 Precision M4500 Precision M4500
8.773.1.1 8.773.1.1 267.76

Precision M6400

Precision M6400 Precision M4400
Lenovo ThinkPad W520 Mobile Workstation NVIDIA Quadro 2000m 268.44

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ThinkPad W520 ThinkPad W701

NVIDIA Quadro 1000m

Nvidia Quadro FX 3800M Nvidia Quadro FX 2800M Nvidia Quadro FX 880M Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M FireGL V5700

ThinkPad W701

ThinkPad W510 ThinkPad W700
ThinkPad W500 GoBOXX 2650 Mobile Workstation GoBOXX 1600
Nvidia Quadro FX 3800M Nvidia Quadro FX 2800M
Nvidia Quadro 4000M Nvidia Quadro FX 880M
Fujitsu Siemens Celsius H910 Celsius H700 267.39

XP: 266.58 Win7: 267.76

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Mobile Workstation Caveats & Limitations
The following table provides a description of workstations caveats and limitations.
Autodesk Showcase 2012 for Microsoft Windows
Model Graphic Driver OS Caveat / Limitation Status Workaround
Note: Refer to the graphics Certification document for potential caveats that may apply to graphics card models similar to the one you have for your mobile workstation.

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Operating System Dependent & Miscellaneous Issues
There are currently no known operating system dependent or miscellaneous issues related to the operating systems supported by the Autodesk Showcase 2012 for Microsoft Windows software product releases.
Operating System Caveat / Limitation Workaround

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Communicate Your Designs
Part of the Autodesk Digital Prototyping solution, Autodesk Showcase 2011 helps you tell the stories of your designs through realistic imagery and interactive presentations.
In todays economic climate, we need to react fast to market trends. Creating digital prototypes with Inventor software and using Showcase for 3D visualization reduces costs and cuts development time in half.
Dave Clarke Product Development Manager VOX R&D
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Autodesk Showcase 2011 visual communication software is an indispensible companion to Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Alias software products, enabling designers, engineers, and marketing teams to evaluate designs in context, more rapidly explore alternatives, and tell the stories of their designs with realistic imagery and higher-quality digital 3D environments. Storytelling Tell the stories of your Inventor and Alias Digital Prototypes more effectively by creating immersive design presentations using enhanced storyboard tools, new keyframe animation capabilities, interactive triggers, and a 360-degree Orbit Shot. Plus, you can publish your Showcase scenes as movies or Adobe Flash files so that they can more easily be posted to the Web and reviewed remotely. Interoperability and Performance Save valuable time with improved ability to read Autodesk Inventor data and certain free third-party CAD translators. Native 64-bit support helps boost performance and stability of complex scenes and higher-resolution rendering. Review and Evaluate Designs in Context Take a more detailed look at your design and evaluate it in a real-world context using new and enhanced environments, cross-section tools for creating more informative views, and a Bloom camera effect that creates lighting on highly reflective objects.
Key Features Storyboard Timing and Movie Creation Slide-timing allows you to better control the timing of environment switching, alternative changes, behavioral triggering, or camera position changes. With slide-timing, you can more precisely define the creative direction of your presentations. Also, you can share work with colleagues or customers who do not use Showcase by more quickly and easily exporting slides as movies or rendering Showcase scenes to interactive Flash files. Cross-Section Tool Explore designs in detail with the new cross-section tool, which enables you to intersect model geometry with a freely position-able plane or box, in real time, to help create more informative views for design review. Patch Level Access Access model data with greater flexibility with the new patch-level access tool. Isolate and apply different materials to one or a group of surface patches. Bloom Effect Showcase 2011 software allows you to create lighting effects by over-exposing concentrated lights on highly reflective objects. Ambient Shadows Textures on Polygons Create highly realistic imagery by simulating more accurate Ambient Shadows for polygonal objects. Showcase 2011 enables users to better calculate ambient shadows on polygonal objects that contain UVs, using textures instead of vertices.
Keyframe Animation and Triggers Add greater interactivity to presentations with new animation features: keyframe animation techniques and triggers. Triggers help make geometry clickable in Presentation Mode, triggering an alternative, a shot, a behavior, an environment, or a storyboard slide. In Presentation Mode, the cursor will change when it hovers over Trigger geometry, indicating that it is a clickable trigger, with an optional tooltip to show the trigger name. Additional New and Enhanced Features:
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Autodesk Showcase 2011 Showcase** 2011 addresses the needs of designers, engineers and marketing professionals, providing tools for interactively exploring design options and creating highly realistic renderings for sales and marketing purposes. The Showcase 2011 software supports industry-standard 3D CAD formats, geometry tessellation, photorealistic materials, HDRI environments and lights, easy-to-use camera and object animation, interactive 3D triggers and storyboards with precise timing control, and image, movie, and Flash rendering output. Autodesk Showcase Professional 2011 Showcase Professional 2011 is designed for specialized display environments involving multiple-screen displays, high-speed raytracing clusters, stereoscopy, and remote session sharing. The software includes all the features of Showcase 2011 as well as these additional functionalities. Showcase Professional also includes support for the X-Rite MA 98 Measured Material Device, a hardware device that can help measure real-world glossy paints and produce a more accurate material representation within Showcase. Autodesk Consulting can help design and implement the right Showcase Professional solution to fit your specific needs. Learn more about Autodesk consulting www.autodesk.com/consulting. www.autodesk.com/showcase

CATIA v4/v5 third-party file formats are included at no additional cost. Now you can import advanced Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya camera animations directly into Showcase shots, via the Autodesk FBX data exchange. By installing the included driver, users who license Autodesk Showcase Professional and an X-Rite MA98 device can scan paint samples and assign accurate materials immediately to geometry with the intuitive Showcase user interface.
Autodesk Inventor Software Interoperability Save time when working with Inventor software data. Showcase 2011 software reads Inventor softwares welding maps, thread maps, and decals, enabling you to repurpose information that has already been defined in Inventor. New Environments and Environment User Interface (UI) Showcase 2011 features a larger selection of photorealistic environmentssome of which are included with Inventor 2011and a new UI that helps make managing environments easier. Environments are now grouped into categories, so they can be managed with the same flexibility available for managing materials. Environments can also be saved with the scene to more effectively package scenes for sharing. New Tessellation Settings and Enhanced Level of Detail (LOD) Showcase 2011 tessellation settings have been simplified, improved, and optimized for Inventor interoperability. The product also includes a new geometry LOD system, offering better performance optimization as objects positioned far away from the camera are automatically displayed at a lower level of detail. New Orbit Shot Incorporate cinematic camera motion into your presentations with the new Orbit Shot, which allows you to move the camera 360 degrees around a center of interest.
The new Plug-in Manager helps simplify loading and unloading of Showcase plug-ins. The Organizer now displays object names in a manner consistent with the originating software. Showcase API documentation in the Software Developers Kit has been updated and enhanced. The new Camera Control UI allows you to specify camera parameters and position, for more precise camera control. Autodesk Showcase Product Family The Autodesk Showcase product family helps facilitate informed decision making on digital prototypes by simplifying the creation of accurate, highly realistic imagery. Autodesk Showcase 2011 Viewer The Autodesk Showcase 2011 Viewer is a free* application available for download. It allows non-Showcase license holders to view and navigate Showcase scenes. For the first 30 days of use, the Showcase 2011 Viewer is a fully functional trial of Autodesk Showcase 2011 software.

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* Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies the software. ** Showcase 2011 includes many features that were previously available only in Autodesk Showcase Professional software. The following features remain exclusive to Showcase Professional 2011 ($6,000 SRP***): Display Clustering, RapidRT Cluster, Stereo, Session Sharing, and X-Rite MA98 Measured Material Device Support. A cross-grade is available for customers to change their Autodesk Subscription renewal from Showcase Professional to Showcase. *** International pricing may vary.
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