System requirements for AutoCAD MEP 2014

Autodesk Support

Oct 8, 2023


Products and versions covered


Issue:

This article provides the system requirements for AutoCAD MEP 2014.

Solution:

For 32-bit AutoCAD MEP

  • Windows® 8 Enterprise or Professional edition; Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition; or Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later) operating system
  • For Windows 7 and 8: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or Higher with SSE2 technology
  • For Windows XP: Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or greater with SSE2 technology
  • 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
  • 6 GB free disk space for installation
  • Video card 1,024 x 768 with true color (1,600 x 1,050 or higher recommended)
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
  • Microsoft® Mouse-compliant pointing device
  • Download and installation from DVD
  • .NET Framework Version 4.0 Update 1

For 64-bit AutoCAD MEP

  • Windows 8 Enterprise or Professional edition, Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition, or Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later)
  • Pentium 4 with Intel® EM64T support and SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2, AMD Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology, or AMD Athlon® 64 processor with SSE2 technology
  • 2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended)
  • 6 GB free disk space for installation
  • Video card 1,024 x 768 with true color (1,600 x 1,050 or higher recommended)
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
  • Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
  • Download and installation from DVD
  • .NET Framework Version 4.0 Update 1

Additional Requirements for 3D Modeling

  • Windows 7 recommended
  • Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor, 3.0 GHz or greater, or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2.0 GHz or greater
  • 4 GB RAM or more
  • 6 GB free hard disk available, not including installation requirements
  • 1,280 x 1,024 true color video display adapter 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, and Direct3D® capable workstation class graphics card

Virtualization

Minimum

  • Citrix® XenApp™ 6.5 FP1
  • Citrix® XenDesktop™ 5.6
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Products:

AutoCAD MEP;

Versions:

2014;


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