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Installation Guide

www.civilfem.com CivilFEM Installation Guide. Ingeciber, S.A.© Ver. Beta Student 2013

CivilFEM Installation Guide

1. Introduction .................................................................................................... 1

2. Hardware and Software Requirements ............................................................ 2

2.1. Platform and Operating Systems ............................................................................ 2

2.2. Additional Requirements ........................................................................................ 2

3. Installation of Marc Student Edition ................................................................ 3

3.1. Download Marc Student Edition ............................................................................. 3

3.2. Install Marc Student Edition .................................................................................... 7

4. Installation of CivilFEM 2013 Beta Student....................................................... 8

5. CivilFEM Configuration Options ..................................................................... 11

5.1. Solver ..................................................................................................................... 11

5.2. Mesher engine ....................................................................................................... 13

1 CivilFEM Installation Guide. Ingeciber, S.A.© Ver. Beta Student 2013

1. Introduction

Welcome to CivilFEM Installation Guide. User will find below step-by-step instructions to

install CivilFEM Beta Student which is the main program and then Marc software, needed for

meshing and solving.

There are two different programs with their own installation process.

A typical installation on a Windows machine (choosing the default installation directory)

installs the CivilFEM Beta Student in \Program Files\CivilFEM and Marc in \MSC.Software,

located on the same drive as the operating system.

The license for this product is valid for approximately 2 years from the installation date.

This version should only be used for academic work.

The student version is designed for small, academic simulation only; there is a limit of 2000

elements (200 beam elements) in the model.


2. Hardware and Software Requirements

2.1. Platform and Operating Systems

PLATFORM OPERATING SYSTEM Intel IA-32 Windows XP (Professional / Home)

Intel IA-32 Windows Vista

Intel IA-32 Windows 7

Intel EM64T / AMD64 Windows XP x64

Intel EM64T / AMD64 Windows Vista x64

Intel EM64T / AMD64 Windows 7

2.2. Additional Requirements

In order to install, you must have administrator’s privileges.

It is advisable to have a 3D graphic card with updated OpenGL drivers.

Internet connection for software updates.

3 GB space is needed in the hard disk (500 MB for CivilFEM and 2.5 GB for Marc).

A minimum of 1GB of RAM is needed to run this version.


3. Installation of Marc Student Edition

To run CivilFEM, Marc 2012 Student Edition (MSC. Software) must be installed (any other

version of Marc Mentat also works). To get Marc 2012 Student edition please follow the

below instructions.

3.1. Download Marc Student Edition

Get the UNED ID card within the General Content Virtual Classroom:

Master’s general contents > Homepage > Software Installation Guides > Obtain the

UNED's ID Card

Visit MSC.Software Academia webpage:

http://www.mscsoftware.com/student-editions

Click on Download Now



Being a new user, student must register first. Click on REGISTER.

Fill in the registration form. All (*) fields are mandatory.


Before clicking on REGISTER do not forget to include your UNED ID:


If student have entered a valid email account, a confirmation message will be sent.

Visit again MSC.Software Academia webpage:


And enter login and password:

A list of available MSC.Software products is shown. Download Marc Student Edition

(marc_se_2012_windows3264.exe). File size is about 1 GB.



3.2. Install Marc Student Edition

Once the installer is completely downloaded run the InstallShield Wizard which will guide

you through the rest of the setup process.

During Marc installation, after choosing the destination folder of Marc product, user

will then be presented with which product options to install: Complete, Solver or

Modeler. It is important to select the Complete option to install both Marc (solver)

and Mentat (modeler).

Once the installation procedure has finished start with CivilFEM Beta Student.


4. Installation of CivilFEM 2013 Beta Student

Please download and then run the installation file “CivilFEM 2013 Beta Student”

a) Begin installation and click Next.

b) Accept the License Agreement and click Next.


c) Select a setup file: Complete (full components installed) or Custom (options for

installation folder and include or not software documentation appear). Then click

Next.

d) Click Install to begin the installation.


e) Wait until installation progress finishes.

f) When installation is complete click Finish.


5. CivilFEM Configuration Options

Now CivilFEM can be launched and some configuration options must be set before getting

started.

5.1. Solver

Set the folder path of Marc solver executable file. Please follow these steps:

a) Launch CivilFEM 2013 Beta Student

b) Click on CivilFEM button (top left corner )and then Options


c) Click the Configuration tab and then enter the correct path of Marc installation

folder and select the solver executable file run_marc.bat.


By default, the path for a 64bit machine is as follows:

C:\MSC.Software\Marc_Student_Edition\2012\marc2012\tools\run_marc.bat

5.2. Mesher engine

Set the folder path of Mentat mesher executable file. Please follow previous a) to d) steps

for setting the solver path:

a) Please follow the steps described previously from 5.1a) to 5.1d)

b) Then enter the correct path of Marc installation folder and select the mesher

executable file mentatOGL.exe.

By default, the path for a 64bit machine is as follows:

C:\MSC.Software\Marc_Student_Edition\2012\mentat2012\bin\win64\mentatOGL.e

xe

c) Click OK to finish. CivilFEM is ready to run an analysis!


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