Download LIME

A free 30-day trial will start when you run LIME for the first time. If you are a returning user, valid keys will be picked up automatically. If your key has expired you can Activate online here.

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Hardware requirements

LIME runs on most laptops and workstations running the 64-bit Windows operating system (Windows 10 or 11). These hardware recommendations will help you increase performance, especially with larger datasets.

  • Dedicated GPU for running the 3D graphics (NVIDIA recommended, e.g. Quadro series >2GB).
  • >4GB RAM (recommended 16GB or more) to load large 3D model data
  • A multi-core processor is beneficial for multi-threaded data loading and processing
  • High-speed hard drives for faster data loading, especially for tiled 3D models
  • Plenty of hard drive space for those large 3D datasets, and/or:
  • A good Internet connection if using cloud 3D data connections (e.g. V3Geo)

The first and second items are most important to get the best performance.

System requirements

Read this if you get a missing DLL error the first time you run LIME

LIME requires Microsoft's Visual C++ Redistributable to be installed on your system. After installation, if you receive a warning that vcruntime140.dll (or similar) is missing then there is a good chance that your system does not have this installed. Please download and install the Visual Studio 2015-2022 X64 runtime from Microsoft's official pages.

How to cite and acknowledge LIME

Buckley, S.J., Ringdal, K., Naumann, N., Dolva, B., Kurz, T.H., Howell, J.A., Dewez, T.J.B., 2019. LIME: Software for 3-D visualization, interpretation, and communication of virtual geoscience models, Geosphere, 15(1): 222-235. doi:10.1130/GES02002.1 (Open Access).

If you find LIME useful in your work, please recognise the great efforts the development team make, by acknowledging the Fonix Geo team in any publication, presentation or other output based on use of the software.

Test dataset and getting started

See the LIME Resources page for tutorials, a test dataset and FAQs useful when getting started with the software.

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