SW Student Desing Kit 2007-2008 (WIndows Vista)

Hello!

I downloaded this version today and installed it. Everything was nice
until I tried to create new part.

SW is working right, but I'm having very big graphic issues. Here is
some pictures:

This is how it looks when I open a part and move cursor around screen:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/jatama/Kuvat/sw1.jpg

And like this if I move cursor over part:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/jatama/Kuvat/sw2.jpg

and when zooming:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/jatama/Kuvat/sw3.jpg

seems to be working when drawing lines and so on:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/jatama/Kuvat/sw4.jpg

....but when i move cursor over some of those lines:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/jatama/Kuvat/sw5.jpg


So program works but it is very, very annoying and troublesome to do
anything!

Here is my computer specs:
Intel 6400 C2D
Ati Radeon x1950 Pro
Abit AB9 Quad GT
2Gb RAM
and so on..

Anyone else has this kind of problems with SW on Vista? Any ideas how
I can get rid of these?

Thanks for help
Jatama

 

Gawd.

When was the last time someone here had any graphics problems with a
cheap ATI card? Beuler? Anyone?

First, is the student version really SW 2007? If so, there is a
specialized version of 2007 specifically for Vista, second, yo got a
crap video card, and third did you bother checking the SW site for
driver version>?

Dusty.

 

well at a guess its the drivers...
if you look in the release notes you see there are issues with ATI drivers
and Vista anyway..
and further there are no ATI drivers on the tested/recommended list here
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/VideoCardTesting.html

unfortunately ATI have not made the best combination with SW
if you were using XP you might also have some issues..

If you were using XP I might suggest you try soft modding your card to be a
FireGL7350

Failing that I suggest you will be better to sell your x1950 to a gamer and
get an Nvidia Quadro 560 or 1500 if you can afford it

You will be much less likely to have any issues or at least severe ones like
that keep you from getting anything done at all

 

You can isolate the problem to the video card by checking Software
OpenGL in the Options under Tools. If it is the graphics card/drivers
then you probably want ot change. And if you are on VISTA the version
of SW you have is not made for that OS.

TOP

 

Well, this is the version what SolidWorks offers at their site (I have
student license from my school). There is two versions to download,
one to XP, one to Vista (this was realesed like 4 days ago, so i
assume it is vista version).

I have checked that Software OpenGL but I cant change that (that line
is grey, cant check/uncheck the box).

I will test to update my ATI drivers today...

 

.... when I changed XP 2 compatibility mode on from .exe propereties
and took visual effects off it helped a bit (that black thing
dissapeared) but its still unusable.

 

What is your point?
Get youself compatible hardware - at minimal cost these days- or , well-
whatever.
The battle is over.

 

This may be of interest from the SolidWorks website.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/CustomerBulletins.html

The Sept 17th bulletin on certified Vista video cards and drivers.
The last paragraph specifically states there are no certified Vista
drivers for ATI cards at this time.

Also to toggle the Use Software Open GL switch, no SolidWorks files
(parts, asm or drawings) can be open. Just launch SolidWorks with no
documents open and you will then be able to toggle the switch to turn
off hardware Open GL.

Cheers,

Anna Wood

 

Just a question:

I have been trying to download the SDK this week and after filling my
license data, accepting the license and selecting "Download Windows XP
version", finally I am always redirected to a broken link. I tried
from 3 different computers, so I guess that the problem is not in my
license data, but in the Solidworks website.

Did you manage to download the SDK successfully at first attempt? Any
trick?

Cheers,
Manuel

 

I downloaded both XP and Vista version from here http://www.solidworks.com/europeansdk

Actually I have downloaded XP version twice, worked fine everytime.

 

Unbelievable! Everything started to work fine after updating Ati
drivers to 7.9 version!