RealView and colour properties are not functioning

While working on an assembly after editing some part appearances and
materials in photoworks 2007 the RealView in SW2007 SP1 suddenly ceased to
function, although the RealView button is pressed and highlighted and
although I'm in assembly mode while not editing a part. if I open one of the
parts in a separate window then the same happens in part mode.
Even worse then that is the fact that if I start a new part file then it has
a constant gray colour no matter what colour or material I choose for it,
with or without RealView.

I've got no clue to whatever has caused solidworks to suddenly ignore every
colour and display property of my parts and assemblies. I presume it is
something in the setup or registry keys of the program that got wrong, but I
didn't mess with those recently.

Really frustrating..............Did anybody of you guys encountered this
recently?

Gil

 

There we some changes from 2006 to 2007 concerning RealView, please
read the what's new carefully. You can not have " Display PhotoWorks
materials in SolidWorks" and Realview at the same time. They are modes
that you need to toggle in the PhotoWorks/Options dialog.

Also, SolidWorks Lighting now affects RealView materials in 2007
(lighting had no affect on RealView in 2006).

 

I should add one more important detail:
On the same workstation I have SW2006 SP5 installed, which is functioning
normally in general and regarding the colours and RealView properties also
normally in particular. Maybe the 2007 SP1 installation is messed up because
the 2006 SP5 installation? I'm not sure because we installed the 2007 SP1 on
different folders (including the "commons" folder) and the problem of the SW
2007 installation regarding the colours and RealView started only today!

Also my Nvidia Quadro FX 700 GC card is approved by SW corporation, and the
driver is the recent one.

other relevant specs:
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 with all recent updates and patches.
1 GB RAM
Pentium IV 2.6 GHz

if anyone of you encountered this oddity then please share this info with
me.

thanks,
Gil

 

There we some changes from 2006 to 2007 concerning RealView, please

That's it!!!! thanks Mark, you helped a lot.

Gil

 

P.S.

Mark, You might want to consider greying out the RealView button while
"Display PhotoWorks materials in SolidWorks" is selected on PhotoWorks
system options. a user who will move his cursor over the greyed-out RealView
button while PhotoWorks is in that mode will see a massage appearing,
telling him that this option is not available in that PhotoWorks mode.

cheers,
Gil

 

Yes, good suggestion.

Mark

 

Better yet, how about a grid that helps you keep track of all of the
display overrides? If you just expand Display Pane a few columns you
could add faces, P-works, draft analysis colors, zebra stripes,
curvature, in context override... and more than that to be able to
control the various display properties from the Display Pane (in the
assembly you can control some but not all, and in parts you can't
control anything from the display pane). I keep double clicking the
icons in the part display pane hoping that some day they will respond
rather than needing to hunt down where this or that display type is
controlled. Consolidating all of the color reporting and control into
one area would be really nice.