francob
Industrial
- Feb 3, 2004
- 8
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
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