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(OP)
I have a new workstation with a nVidia Quadro FX500 graphics card which is supposed to support RealView. How do I enable this?

RE: Real View

If you go to Tools\Customize\"Commands" Tab\ Select "View" under categories. The Icon you want to use is the Last icon on the right, in the second row.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help

RE: Real View

Or look for an icon that looks like a Brickwall.  You have to apply material properties to your model before you see anything related to RealView.

MadMango
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
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RE: Real View

You also have to have the right driver.

Here on my workplace we have some Geforce4 4600 cards. the GF4 cards have been running modified drivers to make the drivers treat them as quadro cards. we used the 30.82 drivers up til now on them, but on these drivers the realview was not supported. The  41.52 drivers work, and we have had no problems with them so far.

and a little sidenote, the brickwall icon is not the realvew materials. this icon applies textures that also is displayed on my firegl card i use at home, and was also displyed on the GF4 cards When running unmodified drivers and the 30.82 modified. (As far as I know, I have not tested all of these textures) Its the red, blue and green dots on the top of the feature manager tree on every part. there is also an icon with a little gold ball in the "view" toolbar that have to bee clicked.

Mad mango , you are in for a treat if you have not tested the material selection through the red-blue-green dot icon, it looks very nice !!!

Best of luck, Mindnumb.

RE: Real View

(OP)
The Realview icon is on one of my toolbars, its just grayed out and I have been assigning materials to my parts (need a broader library).
I checked the SolidWorks website for nVidia graphics cards/drivers that support RealView. As stated earlier I have the FX 500 card - the SW website shows that 6.14.10.4403 is the driver for this card. The driver I have installed is 6.14.10.4523 which the SW website shows is the certified driver for the FX 3000 card.
Should I change drivers? (I'm afraid I know the answer to this one)

RE: Real View

Make sure that the Shaders and Shaders_soft folders are in your SW root directory. Without these foder the real view doesn't work.

Your in a part or and assembly are you not?

You need to use the driver for the 500 FX. I use 6.14.01.4351

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help

RE: Real View

(OP)
I'll check on the Shaders & Shaders_soft folders.
Part & assembly files
The driver you are using is not listed on the SW page for my card & W2K. I'll pursue the driver change as a last resort.
Thanks for your help.

RE: Real View

Even if a driver is not listed it does not mean it does not work well with sw. Most later drivers have no issues with solidworks, just try them out.

RE: Real View

(OP)
I updated to the 6.14.01.4351 driver. Still no RealView I think I'll get my VAR involved. Thanks for your help.

RE: Real View

I'm surprised your Quadro FX500 doesn't work.  I have a nVidia GeForce MMX 440 (128mb) and RealView works fine with it, which was a pleasant surprise to me.

MadMango
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
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RE: Real View

(OP)
I'm working with my VAR and the FX500 is what they use on their demo machines. They are getting in touch with SolidWorks to get an answer.

RE: Real View

If you downloaded your 2004 you need to download the shaders.exe file too to enable Realview, otherwise it won't work.  If you loaded from CD there is no need for this.

RE: Real View

(OP)
I checked on the shaders.exe The file I have with this name is self extracting zip file. I ran this file and as best as I can determine this sets up the Shaders & Shaders_soft folders which I had before running shaders.exe
Still stumped....

RE: Real View

(OP)
Still unable to utilize RealView.  My VAR has recommended that I uninstall & re-install SW. At first I thought this was just a wild guess at what to do next but another guy in my office got an identical workstation and RealView works on his box.
I am going to try to compare our boxes to see if we can determine what is different. If not, uninstall & re-install.

RE: Real View

(OP)
Not yet (didn't know about this trick). I'll get with my IT guy and run this by him (have to get him involved to re-install anyway).
As soon as I try this or get a solution I will update.

RE: Real View

Has this problem been identified?
I have a similar issue

RE: Real View

(OP)
Scott, I didn't try your trick. I ran the SP1 upgrade and it failed at the end. I then uninstalled SW, re-installed, and upgraded to SP1. Still no RealView.

RE: Real View

(OP)
Isn't the trick in your FAQ a shortcut to the un-install & re-install process?
VAR / SolidWorks say things appear to be correct. Since it isn't working they are telling me to un-install & re-install.
I'll see if I can get the IT guy to swap cards with the one in the office that is known to work on an identical box with the same OS, SW version, NVidia driver. Success here tells me that the card is bad, otherwise there is a missed setting or a corrupt install of something.
Thanks for your continued help.

RE: Real View

The FAQ I'm talking about is FAQ559-507 see below:

Alternative to try before reinstalling


If you have exhausted all other possibilities of your problem try doing this, before reinstalling.

IMPORTANT You have to be comfortable to change data in the registry, because you can hose your entire computer if you change the wrong item.

1) Close SW
2) Click Start\Run and type Regedit
3) Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Solidworks
4) RMB the Solidworks directory and click rename.
5) Rename it with your Initials or something.
6) Restart SW, you will have to accept the license agreement and reset your toolbars and tools options. Before you do that, see if that fixes any problems you are encountering.
7) If so, Close SW, then go back to your Registry and delete the Solidworks directory you renamed. (if you push f5 (refresh) you will see a new Solidworks directory appear).
8) If not and you want to keep your old settings. Then Close SW, (push f5) delete the newly created
Solidworks directory, and rename the other directory (that has your initials in it) back to Solidworks.

If this doesn't work, your last alternative maybe to Reinstall SW.

Explanation:
All this really does is, it resets all your settings to default. It is essentially like reinstalling, without actually reinstalling.

I have found this work for some people in the last few weeks. Most people are a lot happier to change their settings back, then to reinstall SW, because of the down time it takes to reinstall.
 

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: Real View

(OP)
That's what I thought the FAQ explained. It was my intention to try this but I was forced into the un-install / re-install this morning when my upgrade to SP1 failed.

RE: Real View

We experienced a similiar problem last week. It turned out to be something gone bad in the personal profile. I could logon my coworks computer and RealView would work.  The computer guys fixed the problem by deleting his profile and creating a new one.  I hope this helps.

Jason

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