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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.
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Additional Requirements
In order to install, you must have administrators 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.
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Get the UNED ID card within the General Content Virtual Classroom: Masters 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
If student have entered a valid email account, a confirmation message will be sent.
Visit again MSC.Software Academia webpage: http://www.mscsoftware.com/student-editions 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.
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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.
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.
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5.1.
Solver
Set the folder path of Marc solver executable file. Please follow these steps: a) Launch CivilFEM 2013 Beta Student
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c) Click the Configuration tab and then enter the correct path of Marc installation folder and select the solver executable file run_marc.bat.
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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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