texture scale foobar

Hi all,

I'm suffering increase annoyance at the texture command in solidworks.
I'm not sure when this happened or if it only affects me? But the
scale of each and every texture in the default sw textures is off. I
work in ips and I would say that textures are approx. 8 to 10 times
larger than they should be. ie. If I were to apply a patterned texture
like brick of something, even with the scale slider all the way down,
the bricks will still be too big.

It did not used to be this way, but I'm not sure when it changed. Is
this affecting anyone else?

Thanks,

Zander

 

YUP,

It's caused me great annoyance, I can't get it to scale either. This was a
big problem for me in Maxwell Render, I hope Maxwell can get the textures
working properly in Maxwell Studio as I don't believe SolidWorks are going
to be even slightly interested in fixing this.

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

I'm getting more curious about when this broke, I occasionly use
textures in certain types of drawings for effect but not often enough
to pinpoint when this happened. It affects custom textures as well.

ps. Have you ordered your new system yet? (unmasking multiple
secret identities!)

Zander

 

I'm off to buy it in the next half hour.



Went for:-

1/ Supposedly "high quality" RAM, about 3 times the price of original RAM
and 2GB instead of 4GB, as AMD chips will only run anything more than 2GB at
T2. I have a permanent headache after spending a lot of time reading about
RAM timings, ECC RAM, Stability versus speed etc. Most systems seem to be
set up to run games at high speed with cheap RAM, makes me wonder a what
percentage of SolidWorks stability issues are caused by "cheap" RAM - So I
erred on the cautious side as it's almost impossible to tell what causes
some of the instability.



2/ AMD ATHLON X2 4600 - In a year or so I may upgrade this chip to extend
the life of this system.



3/ One 76 Gb Raptor drive opposed to the 2 x 36GB as RAID 0. I might add
another 76GB Raptor later as RAID 0.



Budgeting bang for buck, is quite an art it I think it would be very easy to
spend NZ $4,000 or NZ $10,000 and see only a slight increase in everyday
performance.



We shall see.



John Layne

www.solidengineering.co.nz