I have been trying to email support for help on this issue, but their response time is slow, and I feel they may not even have SolidWorks 2010, so I'm hoping someone else either has a simple fix for this I haven't found, or can confirm the issues.
I just upgraded to Windows 7 64 bit, and SolidWorks 2010 SP4. I have all the latest drivers and updates for everything. I have a Spacepilot PRO and love it. I'm a manufacturing and design engineer and do a lot of CAD work.
First, when my computer goes to sleep, and I start it back up again, the LCD fails to come back to life. Unplugging and plugging it back in doesn't work. I have to force-quit 3DxWare and restart it. Then it works again. Does anyone else have this problem? Is this a known issue or am I special?
Second, in SolidWorks, the zooming feature zooms off to the side. The rotation works about the rotation-center-icon thing, but the zooming seems to be arbitrary. Once in a while it will zoom in to the center of rotation, but most of the time it's off to the side. This is very counter intuitive and frustrating when trying to focus in on a single part of a large assembly.
To see this, open a large part or assembly. Now pan to a side. Turn on Dominate axis to be sure it's the zooming having issues. Now zoom in a lot. Most of the time you will notice you are zooming off to the side of the blue icon.
Can anyone else confirm this? Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Windows 7 Sleep Mode, and a Zoom Issues in SW2010
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Re: Windows 7 Sleep Mode, and a Zoom Issues in SW2010
Yes, this is a known issue. If the computer goes to sleep the LCD Manager hangs. Our internal bugnumber is 5533. You will see in the relase notes of a new driver if a fix is available for this issue.CaseyDill wrote:...
First, when my computer goes to sleep, and I start it back up again, the LCD fails to come back to life. Unplugging and plugging it back in doesn't work. I have to force-quit 3DxWare and restart it. Then it works again. Does anyone else have this problem? Is this a known issue or am I special?
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I have the same operating system/architecture as you have and the same SolidWorks version installed, but I could not yet reproduce the issue. Maybe I do not have large enough files?CaseyDill wrote:...
Second, in SolidWorks, the zooming feature zooms off to the side.
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Currently we have an open issue "Zoom direction influenced by (un)folded panes", bug number 5162. Do you see any difference if you minimize the "Feature Manager design tree" or if you epand is to rather large?
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Windows 7 Sleep Mode, and a Zoom Issues in SW2010
Also, it doesn't happen every time. When I first created a block to test this (a simple 6"x12"x2") and recorded a video, it worked perfectly, zooming where it should. So I started playing around spinning it, and then it started zooming off to the side again.
Is there a way I can recored a video of this? I can record normal solidworks video, but the blue icon doesn't show up. I'll upload the video I have to youtube (or email it somewhere?). What I did was to create a hole in a block then moved the block to a position where the hole would be where the center of rotation is, then recorded a video of my zooming in.
Is there a way I can recored a video of this? I can record normal solidworks video, but the blue icon doesn't show up. I'll upload the video I have to youtube (or email it somewhere?). What I did was to create a hole in a block then moved the block to a position where the hole would be where the center of rotation is, then recorded a video of my zooming in.
Video
This is a video of my zooming in and out. I'm not panning at all, and I'm giving the program time to reset the axis of rotation location:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEXDyypVRcc
As you can see, it is zooming to somewhere WAAAAY off to the size. When I'm trying to model fine details and put together an important, detailed assembly, this makes me want to send my mosue back! It jsut zooms totally off my screen, and I need to go back to using the zoom functions from my mouse.
This software issue is ruining the value of the mouse.
Again "Zoom to Cursor" is selected, and all the jazz talked about above.
Help?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEXDyypVRcc
As you can see, it is zooming to somewhere WAAAAY off to the size. When I'm trying to model fine details and put together an important, detailed assembly, this makes me want to send my mosue back! It jsut zooms totally off my screen, and I need to go back to using the zoom functions from my mouse.
This software issue is ruining the value of the mouse.
Again "Zoom to Cursor" is selected, and all the jazz talked about above.
Help?
Zoom Issues
YES! It works perfectly if perspective is turned off AND I have minimized the task pain.Does it work as you expect if "perspective" is disabled?
Next question is then, when can this and internal bugnumber is 5533 be fixed?
Thanks!