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Using Realview-Only patterns with non-compatible graphics card.

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Hi all,

Unfortunately the graphics card on my PC is not one of the 'official' Solidworks cards and as such I do not have access to Realview and by extension certain patterns.

I have a model on which I need to put hundreds of thousands of teeny tiny holes so I had hoped to use the cosmetic hole pattern however this unfortunately is a Realview Only pattern. I am still able to apply the pattern but obviously there's no visual change when I do this. If I go to render this now, will my hole pattern become visible?

Does anybody have any kind of work around on this? Using Linear Patterning is out of the question because of the sheer volume of holes I need to put on my model.

Thanks very much!

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Adam Hartles Aug 9, 2017 6:09 AM

Megan

I think the only workaround is to create your own texture with an image- maybe Photoshop. You would perhaps add some definition/shadow to each "hole" in the flat 2D texture to get it looking as accurate as possible. You would have to scale the texture accordingly to fit the correct numbers of holes that you need. A bit tedious but may be the only way. I have just tried rendering a cosmetic hole pattern with and without Real View enabled and neither shows in the rendering, so if a rendered image is your desired output, you won't get benefit from using the pattern anyway- modelling the holes or a 2D image based texture will be the only way to do it.

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Megan Tissington @ Adam Hartles on Aug 9, 2017 9:16 AM

I had thought about making my own texture but I want it to look like the proper job and I'd only be able to give shadows etc. from one angle really which is okay but not ideal. I think though this is probably going to be my only option since I can't do the linear pattern because there are literally hundreds of thousands of tiny holes and no matter how big a processor you have, Solidworks just doesn't like working with too many repeated things in one sketch.

Thanks anyway, I think I'll just have to go ahead and make a texture and hope it looks good!

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Michael Lord Aug 9, 2017 10:22 PM

Megan,

Depends on your graphic card, you MAY be able to use a Registry hack to enable RealView

You might like to have a look at this old article

You Don’t Know What You’ve Been Missing until you get it Back! – RealView #solidworks | Michael Lord

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Megan Tissington @ Michael Lord on Aug 11, 2017 7:03 AM

Hi Michael,

I'd actually come across that one before and believe me if it was my computer I'd be doing that straight away but unfortunately it's a work PC and I don't want to mess around too much!

I tried making my own texture with Adobe Illustrator basing it off the wood textures that Solidworks provides (specifically Satin Finish Maple 2D) and it's actually worked surprisingly well - see image for reference (I realise it's only half an image but I wasn't bothered rendering the whole thing when I could already see that it was working quite well). I think my next step is to create the holed texture as a bump map so I can apply it to multiple different types of wood, rather than having to create a whole new texture for each different species.

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Adam Hartles Aug 9, 2017 6:09 AM
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Megan
I think the only workaround is to create your own texture with an image- maybe Photoshop. You would perhaps add some definition/shadow to each "hole" in the flat 2D texture to get it looking as accurate as possible. You would have to scale the texture accordingly to fit the correct numbers of holes that you need. A bit tedious but may be the only way. I have just tried rendering a cosmetic hole pattern with and without Real View enabled and neither shows in the rendering, so if a rendered image is your desired output, you won't get benefit from using the pattern anyway- modelling the holes or a 2D image based texture will be the only way to do it.
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- Megan Tissington @ Adam Hartles on Aug 9, 2017 9:16 AM
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  I had thought about making my own texture but I want it to look like the proper job and I'd only be able to give shadows etc. from one angle really which is okay but not ideal. I think though this is probably going to be my only option since I can't do the linear pattern because there are literally hundreds of thousands of tiny holes and no matter how big a processor you have, Solidworks just doesn't like working with too many repeated things in one sketch.
  
  Thanks anyway, I think I'll just have to go ahead and make a texture and hope it looks good!
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Michael Lord Aug 9, 2017 10:22 PM
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Megan,
Depends on your graphic card, you MAY be able to use a Registry hack to enable RealView
You might like to have a look at this old article
You Don’t Know What You’ve Been Missing until you get it Back! – RealView #solidworks | Michael Lord
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- Megan Tissington @ Michael Lord on Aug 11, 2017 7:03 AM
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  Hi Michael,
  
  I'd actually come across that one before and believe me if it was my computer I'd be doing that straight away but unfortunately it's a work PC and I don't want to mess around too much!
  
  I tried making my own texture with Adobe Illustrator basing it off the wood textures that Solidworks provides (specifically Satin Finish Maple 2D) and it's actually worked surprisingly well - see image for reference (I realise it's only half an image but I wasn't bothered rendering the whole thing when I could already see that it was working quite well). I think my next step is to create the holed texture as a bump map so I can apply it to multiple different types of wood, rather than having to create a whole new texture for each different species.
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