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.
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.
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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 !!!
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)
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.
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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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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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I think I'll get my VAR involved. Thanks for your help.![[thumbsdown]](/data/assets/smilies/thumbsdown.gif "[thumbsdown] [thumbsdown]")