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Invisible pane, becoming a pain

Invisible pane, becoming a pain

Invisible pane, becoming a pain

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Hi all,

Whenever I've got SolidWorks on in the background, and I click back, or ALT + TAB back to SolidWorks, the pane where the drawing/part/assembly should be just shows the image of the screen/application I had up before.  I can see the toolbars and feature manager.  When I CTRL + TAB through the other open SolidWorks files, they appear without a problem, but when I cycle back to the first one, all it shows is the image of the previous SolidWorks file.  When I swish the pointer over the pane, the model edges appear in red lines, and I can click everything that should be there.

Machine is an hp xw8000, dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz, 3GB RAM with NVIDIA Quadro4 750 XGL driver 6.14.10.9136

Can anyone help?

Conrad.

RE: Invisible pane, becoming a pain

It's a graphics issue. While you're card and driver are approved, they don't appear to be approved for HP systems. Did the card come with the machine, or did you put it in after the fact? As I understand it, specific manufacturers (Dell, HP, etc.) have hardware configs that utilize different video drivers than what might normally be used. I'm not a system guru, this is only what I've been told. Any way you slice it, you have a graphics issue.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M

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