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Display problems with SolidWorks 2014 SP02 (student edition)

Question asked by Yang Shen on Aug 7, 2014
Latest reply on Aug 12, 2014 by Lenny Bucholz

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Hi, recently I purchased a SolidWorks 2014 student edition from SolidWorks student store. They sent me a DVD and it was Service Pack 02.

However, its User Interface fonts are too small on my new computer which has a high resolution display, the problem becomes a tragedy on my external high resolution display.

No other software I am using has problems like this.

I searched online and found that maybe there is some fix for this issue in SolidWorks 2014 SP03 or SP04, but I also found that it seems student edition cannot upgrade any service pack.

Is there any method to solve my problem?

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Lenny Bucholz Aug 11, 2014 7:28 PM
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turn your resolution down. As for service pack sorry you are not allowed to up grade to the latest, only commercial can, sorry.

what are you running now?

How big is your monitor?

Have you set the command manager setting for Icon to large with description?
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- Yang Shen @ Lenny Bucholz on Aug 12, 2014 1:55 AM
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  I am running SolidWorks 2014 student edition SP02 on Win 8.1 system.
  
  I am using two displays:
  1. Lenovo Thinkpad W540 display 2880*1620, graphics card: Intel HD 4600 and NVIDIA Quadro K2100M (2GB memory), memory: 32GB
  2. Asus PB278Q 27” display 16:9 2560 x 1440
  
  The problems could not be solved when I lower the resolution.
  Not only the icon problems, I mean, in many cases the text in menu bar is too big, the text in instructions is too small, even text in first row of a chart is covered by the text in the second row. It is definitely the software's problem, and I wasted 99 bucks.
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  - Lenny Bucholz @ Yang Shen on Aug 12, 2014 10:27 AM
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    Yang,
    
    Do you have a different monitor? if it is smaller try it to see if it is the monitor causing the issue, if I recall there were some issues with the newer Hires monitors over 24 inches.
    
    check these links.
    
    https://forum.solidworks.com/message/409652#409652
    https://forum.solidworks.com/message/388563#388563#388563
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