Real View
Real View
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I have a new workstation with a nVidia Quadro FX500 graphics card which is supposed to support RealView. How do I enable this?
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RE: Real View
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

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FAQ731-376
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MadMango
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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.
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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)
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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
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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.
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MadMango
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Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
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Still stumped....
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I am going to try to compare our boxes to see if we can determine what is different. If not, uninstall & re-install.
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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
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As soon as I try this or get a solution I will update.
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I have a similar issue
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You may have a faultly card, if you still can't get it to work.
What does your VAR say?
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Real View
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.
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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
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Jason