maxh3
Mechanical
- Dec 10, 2010
- 77
I've been having computer issues and have had a warranty motherboard and hdd exchange, followed by a whole new computer (dell laptop.) Originally I had Solidworks installed and everything worked great. After the new motherboard/hard drive, I reinstalled and noticed that sometimes the scroll wheel zooming was hyper sensitive.
I use the scroll wheel to zoom extensively; that's how I move my view point around. Zoom out, then zoom back in elsewhere, with middle mouse button for dragging/rotating the part around.
At first things work fine, then maybe an hour down the road or maybe a day or two with the computer up and running, suddenly slight movements of the scroll wheel will result in excess zooming. The part will become a tiny spot then disappear, and it's difficult to get zoomed back in on it. So I'll save all of my files, close Solidworks, re-open it and it works fine again.
Now with the whole new computer (different model) this scroll/zoom issue is constant. I can't use solidworks like this. Also, with Solidworks open I'm noticing excess CPU usage, like 10-12% with one of the cores' threads pretty much pegged. Closing Solidworks doesn't fix this. I have to use the task manager to manually end the solidworks.exe process before the computer will relax and the fan slow down.
I haven't done anything different with this install than the other one that worked fine. Any ideas? I've tried changing the mouse settings to 1 line per scroll wheel click from 3, and no change.
I use the scroll wheel to zoom extensively; that's how I move my view point around. Zoom out, then zoom back in elsewhere, with middle mouse button for dragging/rotating the part around.
At first things work fine, then maybe an hour down the road or maybe a day or two with the computer up and running, suddenly slight movements of the scroll wheel will result in excess zooming. The part will become a tiny spot then disappear, and it's difficult to get zoomed back in on it. So I'll save all of my files, close Solidworks, re-open it and it works fine again.
Now with the whole new computer (different model) this scroll/zoom issue is constant. I can't use solidworks like this. Also, with Solidworks open I'm noticing excess CPU usage, like 10-12% with one of the cores' threads pretty much pegged. Closing Solidworks doesn't fix this. I have to use the task manager to manually end the solidworks.exe process before the computer will relax and the fan slow down.
I haven't done anything different with this install than the other one that worked fine. Any ideas? I've tried changing the mouse settings to 1 line per scroll wheel click from 3, and no change.
