CathCAD® Installation Guide

CathCAD®: The Software for Developing Your Next MicroCatheter

Roth Technologies, LLC
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Roth Technologies, LLC

14111 Bluff Grove Drive
San Antonio, TX 78216
Phone: 210-380-9890

Email: sales@cathcad.com
Web: www.cathcad.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Table of Contents

I. Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 4
II. CathCAD® System Requirements .............................................................................................. 4
III. Install the MySQL ODBC Driver .................................................................................................. 5
IV. Program Installation .................................................................................................................. 9
V. Uninstalling the Program ......................................................................................................... 11
VI. Installation Support ................................................................................................................. 11
VII. How to determine if Port 3306 is open on your Network ....................................................... 12

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I. Introduction

Welcome to the CathCAD® Software Installation Guide. This manual will provide you basic
instructions on how to install the CathCAD® Software system. This document assumes that the
CathCAD® Software will be loaded on a Windows XP, 7, 8, or 10 platform.

This installation guide applies to CathCAD® Standard, CathCAD® Advanced, and ML CathCAD®. For the
purpose of this document, these software variants are referred to as simply CathCAD®.

II. CathCAD® System Requirements

If you want to run CathCAD® on your Personal Computer on a Windows 7, 8, or 10 environment, the
following summarizes the basic computer requirements:

 1 GHz or faster 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) Microprocessor

 1 GB RAM (32 bit) or 2 GB RAM (64 bit)

 The program and device drivers physically require less than 10 MB of Hard drive space. That
being said -- normal running of the Windows 7/8/10 Operating System requires 1 GB
minimum Hard drive space available (32 bit and 64 bit)

 Internet Access including the requirement that Port 3306 be open on the Internet gateway

 Installation of the MySQL ODBC Driver Version 5.X 32 Bit Version

 The User running the software must have READ/WRITE access to the directory that the
CathCAD® software is installed. The software creates (and deletes them when the program is
exited) temp files

 In order to utilize the software's export utility, the User must have Excel 2003 or later
installed. There is no special installation of the CathCAD® software to have this functionality
enabled. If Excel is not on the system when the EXPORT function is attempted -- the software
will gracefully recover and disable the function.

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III. Install the MySQL ODBC Driver

The ODBC Driver works as a standard gateway for applications to communicate with our MySQL
Database Server. The Databases for CathCAD® are located on a MySQL server connected to the
Internet. This section provides the necessary instructions for installing the ODBC Driver. This driver
only needs to be installed ONE TIME per computer.

Obtaining the ODBC Driver

If you are running Windows 7/8/10 – you must install MySQL ODBC Connector, 32 bit version, not the
64 bit version. This is true EVEN if you are running the 64 bit version of the Windows 7/8 operating
systems. CathCAD® was compiled using a 32 bit compiler so the use of the 32 bit MySQL ODBC driver
is mandatory.

The ODBC driver is available from the CathCAD® USB Flashdrive provided with your order. This driver
may be obtained from our website as well:

https://www.cathcad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MySQL_ODBC_Install2.zip

We recommend the use of the driver that we provide as it is a known entity. Our system will
automatically default to this driver if it is unable to determine from your computer’s registry entries
and ODBCINST.INI file located in c:\windows on your computer.

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Installing the ODBC Connector for MySQL

The easiest way to install the MySQL ODBC Drivers on Windows is to use the MSI package. This
procedure for downloading and installing is as follows:

1. Download the applicable driver using the links provided in this document
a. Select Microsoft Windows as the platform
b. Select Windows(x86, 32-bit) as the MSI Installer Connection-
2. Click Download
3. Click “No thanks, just take me to the downloads!” when the MySQL website ask you to
register an account

Installing the Windows Connector/ODBC Driver

The following summarizes the actual installation of the ODBC driver onto your computer. Please note
that you will require Administration privileges to complete this setup. For the purposes of this
procedure, the screen shots show the ODBC 3.51 driver being installed. Installing the ODBC 5.1 driver
for Windows 7/8/10 is exactly the same.

a. Double click the standalone installer/MSI file you downloaded

b. The MySQL Connector/ODBC Setup Wizard starts. Click the NEXT button to begin the
installation process

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c. Choose the Typical Installation type. The Typical Installation provides the standard files
needed to connect to a MySQL database. Click NEXT to proceed to the next step.

d. Once the files have been copied to your machine, the installation is complete. Click FINISH
to exit the installer.

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Installation Results

You can determine if your installation of the MySQL ODBC driver was successful when you actually
run the CathCAD® software. The driver version and the support for the MySQL ODBC driver is
displayed on the login screen as shown.

Trouble Shooting

Based on previous customer installation issues, three problems have been encountered:

 The MySQL ODBC driver (32 bit version) was not installed.
 The software requires that PORT 3306 is open on your gateway. If you run into this issue,
please contact your I/S department to review and correct this issue. See Section VII.

We provide instructions in Section VII that can be followed in order to determine if Port 3306 is open
to our Server on your network.

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IV. Program Installation

An installation program is provided to install the SOFTWARE. This installation program installs the
CathCAD® program as well as installs any missing DLL files as part of your Windows Operating System.
We expect that in the future the installation program will be able to install the MySQL ODBC driver as
well. If you are installing an update to the program -- follow this procedure as well as the INSTALLER
will automatically update the program on your computer.

1. Install the USB flash drive that was provided with your order. If the setup program was
downloaded from our website, unzip the files to a local (temp) folder

2. Run the setup program. We utilize Visual Installer 2015 as sold by Sam Logic. A confirmation
screen will request that you select OK to proceed (not shown on this installation guide).

Note: You must run the installation procedure for each of the three CathCAD® products individually.
This allows you as the User to install any or all of the CathCAD® products on the computer.

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3. At the Welcome Screen, select the NEXT button as shown

4. Confirm the directory the files will be installed into by selecting NEXT

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5. The installation will be completed and you are done. The CathCAD® program ICONS will be
installed on your desktop (shortcut), your START menu, and in your program files as shown in the
figures below.

As part of the installation we have included other associated documents that support the program's
use.

V. Uninstalling the Program

The software may be uninstalled by CONTROL PANEL/PROGRAMS.

VI. Installation Support

Contact us at sales@cathcad.com

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VII. How to determine if Port 3306 is open on your Network

We recommend the use of the portqueryUI tool that is provided by Microsoft. It may be downloaded
from Microsoft via the following link. We recommend the use of the graphical user interface version.
Our instructions in this document refer to this version.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24009

Roth Technologies Servers

Roth Technologies has three servers that provided services as follows:

IP: 74.208.242.136 CathCAD® Server

IP: 74.208.165.58 MeasureOD®
IP: 50.21.190.37 MCerberus®

We recommend opening Port 3306 to all three Servers, however, you only need to open Port 3306 to
the Server for the product that you intend on using.

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portqueryUI: Port 3306 open example

This screenshot illustrates an example where Port 3306/TCP Protocol is OPEN on the Firewall for IP
Address 50.21.190.37

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portqueryUI: Port 3306 not open example

The following example illustrates an example where Port 3306/TCP Protocol to IP Address
74.208.242.136 is NOT open on the Network Firewall.

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