Multilingual: GiD environment is fully translated into English, Spanish, Japanese and Russian. Manuals are available into English and Russian.

Multiplatfom: GiD has been developed using C++, tcl/tk and OpenGL tools in order to give the best performance and portability on UNIX workstations and PC under Windows or Linux (on 32 and 64 bits), and on MAC OS X 32 bits.

Multiple license support: Three types of licenses are managed: attached to a computer, attached to a USB memory stick, or served from a remote computer (floating license).

Multiple calcuation options: calculation can be done locally or remotely: an application is provided to allow the running of the calculation remotely from GiD, and after the simulation get back the results to be visualised.