System requirements
This page outlines the hardware and software requirements needed to run the Pixyz SDK effectively.
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This section lists the hardware and software requirements to run the Pixyz SDK.
Operating system | Operating system version | CPU | Additional requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | Windows 10 or newer | X64 architecture | Vulkan 1.3 Runtime or later (installed by default with NVIDIA drivers) |
| Windows Server | 2019/2022 | X64 architecture | Vulkan 1.3 Runtime or later (installed by default with NVIDIA drivers) |
| Linux | Ubuntu Debian | X64 architecture | Vulkan 1.3 Runtime or laterLibc 2.33 (e.g Debian bookworm or Ubuntu 22.04) |
| macOS | Sonoma 14 or newer | X64 architectureApple M1 or above (Apple silicon-based processors) |
Install Vulkan
- Windows: install from here
- Linux:
sudo apt-get install -y libopengl0 libegl1 libgl1-mesa-glx libvulkan1 libgomp1
Hardware
Since loading and optimizing complex and heavy CAD files requires a lot of computing power, you should use Pixyz with the best hardware configuration possible (powerful CPU-GPU, confortable quantity of RAM). Please note that system requirements heavily depend on the type and complexity of CAD and 3D assets your company or studio is dealing with (eg: a game character vs. a complete oil and gas platform)- One instance of Pixyz is multi-threaded (up to 32-threads per Pixyz process)
- 1 CPU with 4 to 32 CPU cores is recommended. Ideal configuration is 8-12 core per Pixyz task (can be configured within Pixyz settings (see Preferences))
- Memory usage depends on the volume of data that Pixyz will deal with during the task It is not easily predictable but for simplification matters, the number of polygons in your scene will be the major indicator of memory consumption. We recommend sizing a comfortable amount of RAM in order to prevent Pixyz from exiting during the process due to lack of memory. As a reference, 1M polygons takes about 0.5Gb of RAM and a point cloud of 1M points takes about 50Mb of RAM
Recommended
- Processor: Intel Core i7 3.0 GHz or higher
- RAM: 16 GB or more
- Graphics Hardware: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
- Disk Space: 1 GB or more (with dynamic swap)
- Operating System: Windows 10 and 11 64-bit, Linux Ubuntu/Debian, Docker, Windows Server 2019/2022.
Minimum
- Processor: x64 dual-core 2GHz
- RAM: 4 GB
- Graphics Hardware: OpenGL 4 compatible
- Disk Space: 200 MB
- Operating System: Windows 10 and 11 64-bit, Linux Ubuntu/Debian, Docker, Windows Server 2019/2022.
GPU (optional)
Important
AMD graphic cards are not fully supported, using one might result in a poor experience of Pixyz GPU-based features. We recommend using NVIDIA graphic cards.
core.setModuleProperty("Algo", "DisableGPUAlgorithms", "True")
List of GPU-accelerated functions
- All functions in the module
view - algo.createvisibilityinformation
- algo.createVisibilityInformationFromViewPoints
- scene.getHiddenPartOccurrences
- algo.removeOccludedGeometries
- algo.removeOccludedGeometriesAdvanced
- algo.removeOccludedGeometriesFromPoints
- algo.removeOccludedGeometriesFromViewPoints
- algo.findOccludedPartOccurrences
- algo.findOccludedPartOccurrencesAdvanced
- algo.createVisibilityInformationAdvanced
- algo.orientPolygonFacesAdvanced