SW Student Desing Kit 2007-2008 (WIndows Vista)

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.

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.

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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.

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

This is a problem between Vista and Solidworks, as the same problem arises with NVIDIA cards, when using Vista, cheap or expensive cards!

Get rid of Vista and use XP.

Vista is too young and stupid at the moment for Solidworks.

I downloaded both XP and Vista version from here

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