Downloading installers
If you are undertaking a Bladed evaluation or are attending a training course, you will be provided with links to download the required installers.
A Veracity account is required to download Bladed 4 installers (Veracity is DNV's online platform which allows access to a range of DNV services). If you do not already have a Veracity account, create an account using your corporate email address (do not use personal email addresses, such as gmail).
To install Bladed 4 on your machine, download the following installers from the Downloads page:
- The latest Bladed 4 release from the Current products tab.
- The optional Results Viewer application from the Utilities tab. This is a standalone package providing enhanced results viewing functionality (and is required for following the “Getting started with Bladed” eLearning course).
If you receive a "Sorry, you don't have access" error message when downloading an installer, please contact us to enable your download access.
The following additional applications are also available from the Downloads page:
- Bladed Results API - an API for interacting with results data programmatically
- Bladed SIF to Wdnh Converter - a tool to help import Wadam data into Bladed
- dtbladed for Linux - a Linux version of the Bladed calculation engine, dtbladed (view further information)
Hardware requirements
Bladed 4 is designed to run on a PC with the following minimum specification:
| Minimum Requirement | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Bladed 4.18: Windows 11 (24H2 or later) Bladed 4.14, 4.16: Windows 10 (20H2 or later) | Bladed 4 has only been tested and verified on the Windows versions specified - other versions are not officially supported |
| RAM | 4GB | 1GB per core; high bandwidth RAM recommended (e.g. DDR3). If insufficient memory is available, calculation performance will be reduced. |
| Processor Speed | 2.5GHz | Fast single-threaded performance recommended. In general, the higher the clock speed, the faster an individual calculation will run. |
| Processor (Logical) Cores | 4 | One core required per calculation; one further core required per instance of the user interface. |
| Screen Resolution | 1280 x 1024 | Display scaling should be set to 100%. |
| HDD | 2GB required for installation files | SSD recommended for fast IO performance. |
Installation
Run the Bladed 4 installer (and optionally the Results Viewer installer):
- All installers should be run by right-clicking on the installer executable file and clicking "Run as administrator".
- It should not be necessary to change any of the default settings on any of the installer screens – please simply click through all of the screens.
Need help?
For further assistance please contact us.
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