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Sketch dimension display quality

Question asked by David Hurayt on Sep 9, 2013
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Can somebody point me in the right direction to the switch that controls the display of sketch dimensions.

As an example if I have a sketch open and I "zoom to fit" and move my mouse button away real slooooow, I get nice crisp lines and test.

However as soon as I:

move of the zoom button
pick a dimension
move to fast
etc.

most if not all the dimension lines and text turn blob-ish.

And at different levels of zoom, different dimensions and part of dimension (text, dim line, ext line) change back and forth from blob to clear and back.

Thanks,

david

Anna Wood Sep 9, 2013 3:11 PM

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David,

Try installing the approved driver from the SolidWorks website.

Call your VAR and see what they have to say. They can help you work through the video card driver install.

Cheers,

Anna

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Anna Wood Sep 9, 2013 11:26 AM

Looks like you are getting a delay on refresh.

What video card and driver do you have in your system? Is it the approved version for your version of SolidWorks and computer hardware?

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

Try toggling On.... Tools > Options > System Options > Display/Selection > Display Dimensions Flat To Screen

Cheers,

Anna

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David Hurayt @ Anna Wood on Sep 9, 2013 11:53 AM

Anna,

Please note, I am a computer software user, not a computer guy, if any of those ones or zeros gets out of place I am lost, but with that said when I open up the control panel it tells me I am using an NVIDIA Quadro 2000. I says driver 311.15.

When I ran through the link you sent it says driver 8.17.12.9573 and seems to indicate evereything is good based on the green check marks.

Also the setting you suggested did clean up the dimesnion text but the lines turn back and forth beteen crisp and blob.

The magic black box is Dell Precision T3500, Win 7x64, SW 2013x64 SP4.0

Any other idea ???

Thanks,

david

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I seems like this began when we went to SW2013

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Anna Wood @ David Hurayt on Sep 9, 2013 3:11 PM

David,

Try installing the approved driver from the SolidWorks website.

Call your VAR and see what they have to say. They can help you work through the video card driver install.

Cheers,

Anna

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David Hurayt @ Anna Wood on Sep 9, 2013 3:49 PM

Thanks Anna. Apparently our IT guy is a beliver in the lastest & GREATEST. NOT ! ! ! When he installed the latest SW update he decided to update to the latest nVidia driver also, That is why it appered to come with the move to SW13. Went back to the old driver and all is well again.

Thanks,

david

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Anna Wood Sep 9, 2013 11:26 AM
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Looks like you are getting a delay on refresh.

What video card and driver do you have in your system? Is it the approved version for your version of SolidWorks and computer hardware?

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

Try toggling On.... Tools > Options > System Options > Display/Selection > Display Dimensions Flat To Screen

Cheers,

Anna
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- David Hurayt @ Anna Wood on Sep 9, 2013 11:53 AM
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  Anna,
  Please note, I am a computer software user, not a computer guy, if any of those ones or zeros gets out of place I am lost, but with that said when I open up the control panel it tells me I am using an NVIDIA Quadro 2000. I says driver 311.15.
  
  When I ran through the link you sent it says driver 8.17.12.9573 and seems to indicate evereything is good based on the green check marks.
  
  Also the setting you suggested did clean up the dimesnion text but the lines turn back and forth beteen crisp and blob.
  
  The magic black box is Dell Precision T3500, Win 7x64, SW 2013x64 SP4.0
  
  Any other idea ???
  
  Thanks,
  david
  
  edit:
  I seems like this began when we went to SW2013
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  - Anna Wood @ David Hurayt on Sep 9, 2013 3:11 PM
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    David,
    
    Try installing the approved driver from the SolidWorks website.
    
    Call your VAR and see what they have to say. They can help you work through the video card driver install.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Anna
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    - David Hurayt @ Anna Wood on Sep 9, 2013 3:49 PM
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      Thanks Anna. Apparently our IT guy is a beliver in the lastest & GREATEST. NOT ! ! ! When he installed the latest SW update he decided to update to the latest nVidia driver also, That is why it appered to come with the move to SW13. Went back to the old driver and all is well again.
      
      Thanks,
      david
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