Default Shaded With Edges - Can this be changed?

Is there a way to change the fact that all parts/assemblies open up
with their edges shown (Shaded with Edges)? I know that this is a
template setting, but this bites for all parts or assemblies that have
already been created.

PS - hello again everybody. I have been lurking for the last year or
so.

 

Yes Steve,

Tools>Options>System Options>Disply/Selection>Edges displayed in shaded
mode>check "No Edges"

HTH,
Muggs

 

Actually, go to Tools/Options/System Options/Edges displayed in shaded mode
and select "No Edges." I think this will do what you want.

W T

 

this would be very easy to do. capture the solidworks event
FileOpenNotify2 - SldWorks Event
then use this api command
ModelDoc2::ViewDisplayShaded

 

I thought this was going to be a case of "I should have looked harder"
but it's apparently not.

I do not have the option you all described (Running SW2004).

I do have an option for System Options\Display/Selection\Edge display
in shaded with edges mode BUT I only have 2 choices - HLR and
Wireframe.

The thing that worries me is that the setting I'm trying to change is
saved with the part or assembly. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to
live with this until eventually I save this setting for each and every
part that I ever open.

Just a pain in the A$$, but it's not a really big deal.

I could write a macro that would take care of this, but heck, it's
just one button click.

Steve

 

Well, seeing that you didn't specify what version of SW you were talking
about I assumed SW2003.

SO... On the tool bar push the "Shaded" button, and then save a new part
template, and that will do it. Now whenever you open a new part with that
part template, you'll already be in shaded mode.

HTH,
Muggs

 

(Steve) wrote in @posting.google.com:

I don't think it's saved with the template. My system (2001Plus) displays
edges or not depending on the current setting whenever I open a part.

Is there a check mark next to View-->Display-->HLR Edges in Shaded Mode in
the menus? I don't know why you wouldn't see it in the System settings
dialog.

Joel Moore

 

How does that help? He's trying to turn off edge display in shaded mode,
not figure out how to have new parts default to shaded mode.

 

My mistake, sorry.

Muggs

 

did i not answer this question.

 

Steve,

I'm also having this problem with SW2004.... it's a real pain in the butt
and despite searching through EVERY darn menu in SW, I can't seem to find
what we're looking for.... hopefully SP1.0 addresses this or else I'm going
back to 2003...not only is it annoying but it's also a LOT hungrier on the
graphics too to superimpose all of those extra displayed edges onto the
model.

George.

 

George,

What they did was change the meaning of the icon (rect. with edges = shaded
2003<, shaded with edges 2004). All of your parts are referancing the same
internal command, it just does something different in 2004. You can change
each model and save it, but I agree, it's a major PITA. It can take hours to
change all the parts in an assembly. Who's going to pay for it ??

Out of eight SW users here, only one likes to work with edges on.

If their using the big time Nvidia FX boards, at SW, they probably didn't
notice much.


Regards


Mark