Dynamic Highlight

[SBaugh]

I have a Dell 6400 (Laptop) that is docked and 2 monitors connected to the docking station. The Dynamic highlight does not work when both monitors are plugged in. When I use just the laptop it works fine. Has anyone else seen this, and if so did you get a solution to the problem?

I already been through the VAR route and that didn't work, hoping someone out here has found away around this, other than dropping one monitor or using the laptop monitor. I cannot see the laptop monitor, which is why I opted for 2 regular ones.

Now I have seen that it will highlight on an occasion, but for the most part it will not highlight. It did for a short time and then for no apparent reason it stopped working. I reinstalled SW once and it started working again, then after a few days it stopped again. I tried reinstalling SW (Clean again) and reinstall the VC driver and it never came back. I am at a lost to why it was working, then stopped and never came back. SW reply when I went through my VAR was

"they don't support this configruation"

which is a cop out of a reply. If it did work then stopped working, then there has to be a reason, not just

"We don't support that"...

I am very frustrated with the cop out reply, since I know there is a solution out there.


Note: 1 monitor is on a VGA cable and the other is on DVI. For some reason our IT was not able to get 2 DVI (which is on the docking station) cables to work with this type of setup.

Scott Baugh, CSWP
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

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[SBaugh]

Well now its not just me! I had a user call in today and he has a Dual monitor setup on a desktop and he is also having the same problem. This seems to me as if its a Bug and not just a case of a bad driver or a particular setup, because the setup is far different.

Scott Baugh, CSWP
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

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[ctopher]

I did some searching around, can't find a fix.
The only problem I have with dual monitors is SW 2010 crashes more than on a single monitor.
Try looking at settings:

http://help.solidworks.com/2010/eng...tions.htm?id=4c9916333b40429a82ec59a5d4ecf2e7

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
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SolidWorks Legion

 

[mncad]

Hi Scott,

I have the same exact setup and my Dynamic highlight will only work with Use software OpenGL checked. I have found that if you go the nVidia control panel and switch to 1 monitor, then start Solidworks and then go back to the nVidia control and switch back to 2 monitors, the dynamic highlight will work with the Use software OpenGL button NOT checked. But, it will only work while that session of SW is open. As soon as you close SW you need to go thru the whole nVidia control panel setup again.

mncad

 

[SBaugh]

That just seems like a total bug to me and not just a setting issue or even a driver issue.

Scott Baugh, CSWP
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

faq731-376

 

[dgowans]

I'd push this back on IT to figure out why you can't get both monitors to use DVI to connect to the docking station. My setup is a Dell laptop / docking station with dual DVI monitors and I have no issues with the dynamic highlighting (aside from the very infrequent graphics wig out which happens to every system I've ever had).