4 Replies Latest reply on Jun 3, 2014 1:07 PM by Richard Wagenaar

User Interface SolidWorks

Dony Juniar Abdullah May 30, 2014 8:56 AM

Dear User SolidWorks,

We have problem about interface SolidWorks 2014.

I using Notebook DELL 3800, for spec :

Core i 7
Windows 8.1 Pro x64bit
nVidia Quadro K1100M
Intel Grapich Card
SolidWorks 2014

We already install driver from : https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

But user interface SolidWorks still bad.

On SolidWorks has setting text size, we are using big text but still bad.

Any body experience for this case.

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Re: User Interface SolidWorks

Patrick O'Hern May 30, 2014 9:17 AM (in response to Dony Juniar Abdullah)

That may just be a side effect of using the large text. The user interface is designed around using the default text size, and switching to the larger text size requires things to move "out of place" to accomodate the larger text.

I seem to remember having the interface look similar to this when testing out the "environments" feature in the 2014 beta.
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- Re: User Interface SolidWorks
  
  Dony Juniar Abdullah Jun 1, 2014 8:37 PM (in response to Patrick O'Hern)
  
  Dear Patrick,
  
  Thanks for your suggestion. But if we are using default text, the command can't be read because very small.
  
  Any others suggestion
  
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  - Re: User Interface SolidWorks
    
    Jerry Steiger Jun 2, 2014 3:32 PM (in response to Dony Juniar Abdullah)
    
    Dony,
    
    This is a known issue that SolidWorks is working on. I don't have a very high resolution display so I haven't seen the problem, nor can I remember what phrase you would want to search on to find the other threads where it is discussed. Try "Retina" or "high resolution display".
    
    Jerry S.
    
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  - Re: User Interface SolidWorks
    
    Richard Wagenaar Jun 3, 2014 1:07 PM (in response to Dony Juniar Abdullah)
    
    I have been reporting user interface problems with fonts for 1.5 year now.
    The fonts are far too small on modern high resolution monitors.
    You can change Windows OS scaling to increase the size but then
    you will have problems with visability of dimensions and property
    managers. Even the latest SP3 SW2014 did not fix the problems
    
    https://forum.solidworks.com/message/431005#431005
    
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