Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by dcote

  1. dcote

    Solidworks 2007 blank screen

    I have a older second hard drive on this computer which has the same software on it - with the same hardware the same file works without problems. Even if the vid card is not the problem, I agree that it may be time for a new one. Dave
  2. dcote

    Solidworks 2007 blank screen

    What I meant was I can view my part when "hide all types" is selected. I can no longer view the part when this is deselected and even if I select it again, the view window will not work until Solidworks is restarted.
  3. dcote

    Solidworks 2007 blank screen

    I have found that I can open a part and view it normally until if I have the "hide all types" option selected under view. If I deselect this option so I can see my sketche/planes ect, the view window stops working. This is driving me nuts! Dave
  4. dcote

    Solidworks 2007 blank screen

    So far I have tried versions 8.163, 8.353 and 8.502 with basically no changes between them. I am currently downloading .net 3.5 but don't expect that to help either. Could reinstalling Solidworks help? Dave
  5. dcote

    Solidworks 2007 blank screen

    The computer is a PC that I built. It has an Athlon 5000+ and 8GB ram. I don't have a current SW subscription so the latest version that I have access to is 4.0 Dave
  6. dcote

    Solidworks 2007 blank screen

    When I open some parts I am getting a blank screen in the window where the part should be - for example if I switch to explorer, then the explorer window stays on top of the part when I go back to Solidworks. I am using Solidworks 2007 SP4.0 x64 on Windows XP x64 Pro with a Firegl 3100 and the...

Part and Inventory Search