Installation

Open ModelSphere 3.2 or higher on Windows * (setup)

1. Make sure that you have a Java Virtual Machine (version 7 **; minimum: version 6 update 30) installed.
2. Double-click the installer and follow the instructions.

Open ModelSphere 3.2 or higher on Windows * (zip file)

1. Make sure that you have a Java Virtual Machine (version 7 **; minimum: version 6 update 30) installed.
2. Unzip the downloaded package.
3. Edit the file 'modelsphere.bat' in the root directory of the application to refer to your Java Virtual Machine: e.g. 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe'.
4. Double-click the file 'modelsphere.bat' to launch Open ModelSphere.(Alternatively, you can use the command line from 'modelsphere.bat' to create a shortcut for launching the application. You can assign the icon 'OpenModelSphere.ico' to the shortcut.)

*   Open ModelSphere is not yet Windows-10-certified!

** To avoid any functional restrictions, we do not recommend to use Open ModelSphere 3.2 or higher with Java 8. If you have not installed Java 7 and/or already use other applications with Java 8, you can download Java 7 from Oracle's site here and use it in parallel. Oracle may require you to sign in, however, the download is free of charge.

Open ModelSphere 3.2 or higher on non-Windows operating systems (zip file)

Open ModelSphere is designed to be platform-independent, however, it has been primarily developed and tested on Windows systems. Therefore, we do not provide any particular installer or any specific instructions for non-Windows environments. You may find advice and comments from 3rd parties on the web how the zip installer package can be adjusted to successfully implement Open ModelSphere on non-Windows platforms.

First Use

When you launch Open ModelSphere for the first time, go to Tools > Options and select Directories to define the target directories for your work items. (The default directories may be write-protected by your operating system!)