4 Replies Latest reply on Sep 9, 2013 3:49 PM by David Hurayt

    Sketch dimension display quality

    David Hurayt
    David Hurayt Sep 9, 2013 11:14 AM

      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.Capture1.JPG

       

      However as soon as I:

      1. move of the zoom button
      2. pick a dimension
      3. move to fast
      4. etc.

       

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

      Capture2.JPG

       

      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

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        • Re: Sketch dimension display quality
          Anna Wood
          Anna Wood Sep 9, 2013 11:26 AM (in response to David Hurayt)

          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

            • Re: Sketch dimension display quality
              David Hurayt
              David Hurayt Sep 9, 2013 11:53 AM (in response to Anna Wood)

              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