I have Solidworks 2011/2012/2013 & 2014 installed on a Dell M6700 laptop running a NVidia Quadro K3000M graphics card and I have a serious problem with the draft analysis feature. When I use draft analysis, it will only work once and then nothing shows up again. Sometimes, if I have been working on an assembly, I can't use it at all. This applies to all Solidworks versions. I have searched everywhere for an answer to this irritating problem but no luck. And the draft analysis features is important to what I do so it's really causing me problems now. Has anyone experienced this before and can anywhere share what they did/do to get around this?
Thanks.
I've seen this problem before. After a while, draft analysis won't turn on. You have to close and restart SolidWorks. I'm not sure what causes it, but I haven't noticed it with 2014 SP3.0. SW made it so Draft Analysis remembers y our gradient settings for color and applies dark blue to negative draft instead of the undrafted color. Maybe they fixed the display problem while they were at it.
Alternatively, with this service pack, I may not have used it frequently enough to cause it to stick