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FRI3D is a fire modeling and visualization platform that uses industry standard codes like CFAST and FDS to perform advanced fire modeling and Fire probabilistic Risk Analysis

FRI3D runs permanently on all your physical/virtual servers, desktops, cloud deployments. It currently runs on Windows distributions with no administrator previleges required.

Minimum System Requirements#

  • Windows® 10 64-bit Professional operating system;
  • 64-bit Intel or AMD multi core processor;
  • 8GB Ram;
  • 3GB free disk space for installation;
  • Graphics Processing Unit (Intel/AMD/nVIDIA) (FRI3D will run without a compatible GPU, but for best performance we recommend using NVIDIA GPUs. )

Supported Operating Systems:#

  • Microsoft Windows 10, 64-bit editions and later.

Recommended System Specifications#

  • 1x NVIDIA GPUs (For Visualizations) with the following minimum specifications: -- CUDA compute capability 5.0 or higher; -- NVIDIA Pascal generation or later; -- NVIDIA Quadro driver version 471.11 or later. -- GPU memory recommendation (2GB or higher)

The amount of memory required on a graphics card to run FRI3D is scene specific.

Request an Evaluation#

Install on Windows using a rar/zip package (Evaluation)#

If you receive a bundled zip file . This is usually done for evaluation licenses. Unzip locally and run FRI3D.exe from the unzip folder.

Install on Windows using an exe installer package (Installer)#

Run the bundled installer FRI3D_Windows.exe

Follow the prompts . Specify the Installation folder to it into a custom user folder if you dont have Adminstrator access or access to <Program Files> folder. The default is \<C:\Program Files\FRI3D> . Select FRI3D component. Accept License Agreement

After installation please proceed to licensing. Depending on the kind of license, you would have received a FRI3D.ini file embedded in the custom zip/installation. This file contains the licensing information . The following are the kinds of license available in FRI3D

License#

Please follow the guidelines in the document FRI3D Licensing Guide for license installation.

Licensing (Evaluation)#

  1. You would have received the Evaluation licence data file (with an extension .ini)
  2. Download the file and rename it to FRI3D.ini
  3. Copy FRI3D.ini to FRI3D installation Folder.
  4. Start FRI3D.

This runs the process as a regular user process

Licensing (Device/User)#

  1. You would have received the Evaluation licence data file (with an extension .ini)
  2. Download the file and rename it to FRI3D.ini
  3. Copy FRI3D.ini to FRI3D installation Folder.
  4. Start FRI3D.

Licensing (Floating/Networked)#

  1. For the floating license. NLicenseD needs to be installed and run first. Please refer to NLicenseD documentation for installing and running it.
  2. You would have received the Evaluation licence data file (with an extension .ini)
  3. Download the file and rename it to FRI3D.ini
  4. Copy FRI3D.ini to FRI3D installation Folder.
  5. Start FRI3D.

This is the recommended way to install FRI3D on a Windows system.

Licensing#

Please refer to the licensing page for obtaining and installing license(s) for FRI3D.

What's next?#

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Reach out

If you need help after reading this doc, email us [email protected] for an answer. .