Installation guidelines for customers + Hardware specifications
- Alex Soler
Standalone
Hardware Requirements
Intel CPU with 8 cores / 16 logical processors, or more
Workstation-class Nvidia RTX or newer GPU with 4GB graphics memory, or more. (OPTIONAL, recommended for shorted calculation times)
Recommended 64GB of RAM for the Ubuntu subsystem, which means the computer must have more than 64GB in total since a part will be allocated to Windows.
Enough disk space (recommended 1TB)
Software installation
The Tecnomatix Process Simulate installation does not require any additional step. The RapidPlan Plug-in will be installed with the standard distribution. The feature can be enabled through the corresponding license.
RTR’s RapidPlan software is built for a Linux operating system environment, and specifically Ubuntu version 20.04LTS. Running on a Windows system requires Windows 11 (or Windows 10 build 21H2) with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) running a distribution of Ubuntu 20.04LTS.
If you do not have Windows Terminal on your Windows 11 PC, install it from the Microsoft App store.
To install WSL2 with Windows 11, you can run the following command with administrator privileges from your Windows terminal:
wsl --install -d Ubuntu-22.04
To install RapidPlan software, execute RTR WSL Install.bat file provided with your installation by double-clicking on the file in your Windows file explorer. To verify RapidPlan is running, execute the RTR WSL Launch.bat script. The script will automatically launch your internet browser to open the RapidPlan local web server. Google Chrome is the recommended browser.
RAM memory is shared between the Windows system and the Linux subsystem. The initial partition is 50/50, although this can be modified.
Server/Client
Hardware Requirements for the RTR server
Intel CPU with 8 cores / 16 logical processors, or more
Workstation-class Nvidia RTX or newer GPU with 4GB graphics memory, or more.
Recommended 64GB of RAM
Enough disk space (recommended 1TB)
Software installation
The machine must be running the required Ubuntu LTS package for the RapidPlan version. Versions 2.0-2.3 use Ubuntu 20.04, versions >2.4 (after July 2023) use Ubuntu 22.04.
To install RTR’s RapidPlan software in your Linux environment, you can cd into the directory containing the downloaded RapidPlan package and run the following command from the terminal:
tar xf ./rapidplan...tar
sudo ./install.sh
NOTE: Installation requires sudo privileges.
Following installation and after each reboot, RapidPlan automatically runs in the background. To verify RapidPlan is running, opening your internet browser and navigating to url: localhost should open the RapidPlan local web server. Google Chrome is the recommended browser.