nanoCAD 3DScan Help

System Requirements for 3DScan

System Requirements for 3DScan

Operating system

·         Microsoft® Windows® 8.1 (64-bit);

·         Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit);

·         Microsoft Windows 11.

Databases

To work with databases for point clouds it is necessary to install PostGis extension for PostgreSql.

PostgreSQL 10 + Postgis 3.2.3-2

PostgreSQL 12 + Postgis 3.3.2-1

PostgreSQL 14 + Postgis 3.3.2-2

PostgreSQL 15 + Postgis 3.3.2-2.

Processor

Minimum requirements: 2 GHz.

Recommended: 3 GHz and higher.

RAM

Minimum requirements: 16 Gb.

Recommended requirements: 32 Gb and higher.

Monitor

Standard monitors: 1920 x 1080.

High resolution monitors: up to 3840 x 2160 (supported in Windows 10, 11).

Graphics

Minimum requirements: graphics processor with 1 GB video memory.

Recommended requirements: graphics processor with 4 GB video memory (supports OpenGL 2.1 or DirectX 11).

Hard disk free space

To work with large point clouds, it is necessary to take into account their volume and quantity when choosing a hard disk. Estimation of the amount of point cloud data can be carried out according to the following table:

Volume of points in a cloud

Size in megabytes per HDD

1 mln.

16.02

100 mln.

1611.56

1 bln.

16313.00

2.5 bln.

40782.50

It is recommended to store point clouds on SSD disks to speed up the work.

Network

TCP/IP protocol should be run on the license server and all work stations where the applications using network licensing will work.