A high school Drafting & Design teacher at Mt. Douglas Secondary recently reached out to see if our community can help. During COVID 19, his students must use home tech resources to continue with course work. In some cases, students do not have access to higher powered computers needed for CAD program design work and The School District is only authorizing loans of Chromebooks.

If you or someone you know is in a position to help, please see the computer requirements below:

CAD System requirements (Minimum)

Operating Systems:
macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

Windows 10 64-bit
Windows 8.1 64-bit
Windows 8 64-bit
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit

Processor:
64-bit Intel Core i5 (or AMD equivalent) or better

RAM:
4GB or more

Graphics Card:
OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics card with 1GB of VRAM or more
Some integrated graphics cards such as Intel Iris graphics are acceptable for simple models/drawings, but a dedicated graphics card is preferable.

Display Resolution:
1440 x 900 or higher

Hard Disk:
10GB free disk space is required for the installation. 30GB or more is required for a full installation with all libraries.


Please Contact:
Graham McLaren
gmclaren@sd61.bc.ca
778-977-1463 (mobile)