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Graphics Improved!!, RealView fixed!

Graphics Improved!!, RealView fixed!

Graphics Improved!!, RealView fixed!

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Hi everyone,
I hope you all find this helpful.  first of all the problem I had, and then how I resolved it.  The machine I have is a 3.0 GHz P4, 1 Gig RAM, 128 MB Nvidia Quadro FX500, SWorks 2004 SP2.1, windows XP Pro

The problem:

I started off from scratch with this system. and things were very stable (still are), but i noticed that my RealView was greyed out and also rotating assemblies and zooming was slow.  
I tried all drivers that were approved by solidworks and nothing helped for realview.  I also did everything that was suggested on this site, but no luck. I tried many different settings in Options, at the same time trying to speed up rotating and zooming.

The fix:

I figured I'd try some more joggling with settings, solidworks and windows settings alike.  I changed quite a few settings and finally my big assemblies rotated very smoothly.  My assemblies have 688 components, and zooming and rotating is very close to as smooth as a single part!
And then I noticed that my RealView was active again.  I cannot tell you which setting made that happen, but what I can do is share all my settings with you and hope it helps!:

Windows Settings:

My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> Visual Effects tab -> select: Adjust for Best Performace

SolidWorks Settings:

Display/Selection tab:
    Hidden Edges Displayed as: Dashed
    Selection of hidden edges: only 'Allowed Selection in wireframe and HLV modes' checked
    Part/Assembly tangent edge display: Removed
    Edge display in shaded with edges mode: HLR
    The following 2 are unchecked in the list:
          Highlight all edges of features selected in graphics view
          Anti-Alias edges

Performance tab:
    (only 3 things checked in here:)
          Automatically load components lighweight
          Remove detail during zoom/pan/rotate (IMPORTANT!)
          Use shaded Preview
     (i turned Software OpenGL off, depending on video card)

Large Assembly Mode tab:
    (only 4 items checked:)
          Automaticall load as lightweight
          Remove detail during zoom/pan/rotate (IMPORTANT)
          Hide all planes, axes, sketches, curves, annotations, etc.
          Automatically hide components on view creation
     (everything else is unchecked here)



Now I know some of these setting have NOTHING to do with performance but those are the settings that have MAJORLY improved my performance, I can't point out which specific one it was.
PLUS, after doing this I had REALVIEW!  Quite a shock to me. So if you have similar problems please take a shot, you know never know what'll happen.


Franco

RE: Graphics Improved!!, RealView fixed!

It might have been the fact that you turned off Software OpenGL.

Glad you got your rig working.

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RE: Graphics Improved!!, RealView fixed!

i have a quadro 700xgl on my dell, at work, and i had to uncheck opengl for realview to work.

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