Hello,
I'm a student in a french engineering school and they gave us a licence for solidworks.
I downloaded the package and installed it perfectly fine.
However, when i try to use it, the bar on the left isnt displaying as long as i dont put my cursor on it , and same for the menu under the top bar (the one with function, sketch,...)
Solidworks specs:
solidworks 2018, activated with a student key, sdk number: XSEK12
Computer specs:
Processor: amd ryzen 5 3550H
Graphic card : nvidia geforce gtx 1650, drivers updated
Ram: 8 Go
Thank you in advance for your answers
EDIT 09/21/19 19:35 Thanks to Glenn Schroeder, I state that the problem was coming from the graphic card (tried to use solidworks's own OpenGL and it worked perfectly fine, even though it was laggy ). So I updated the drivers once more only to find I didn''t have exactly the right ones for my graphic card, downloaded and installed the right ones but I still got the issue
Without knowing more I would say you need to upgrade your RAM and possibly your Graphics card.
You can find system requirements/recommendations on the SW site.
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