Installation requirements

The minimum requirements for running mental ray 3.6.51 on Mac OS X are as follows.

Hardware requirements

To install and run mental ray 3.6.51, your workstation must have:

• At least a 450 MHz G4 processor
• a network card
• a CD-ROM drive
• License server only: a hardware lock (dongle)
• License server only: an active and available USB port for the hardware lock

Note Do not remove a dongle when the floating license server is running as it may corrupt the Software Protection Manager (SPM) software.

Note The mental ray licensing software (Software Protection Manager (SPM)) and mental ray network rendering (rayserver) require open TCP ports on your machine in order to send and receive data across your network. By default, this data is sent on TCP ports 7050 and 7008. If you choose to use TCP service ports other than 7050 and 7008 (for example, if your firewall blocks these ports), you must change the TCP service ports. You can change the port specification by editing files on the license server machine and the client machines after software installation. See Editing service ports.

Operating system and user accounts

• A qualified version of Mac OS X. For information on supported versions, see www.autodesk.com/qual-charts
• An administrator account with a password on your computer to install mental ray. You do not need to be an administrator to use mental ray once it is installed.

Other requirements

A web browser is required to view the online documentation.

Disk space requirements

Minimum: 22 MB for mental ray 3.6.51

Note You need at least 30 MB of free disk space for the installer to unpack the files.

Licensing requirements

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) machines must be licensed as a client from an SPM license server on any supported non-Leopard machine (Windows, Linux or Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier). To set up a Leopard machine as a client, see Setting up client machines.