Error: display mode keeps changing to "shaded"

Hi all,

I am having a very frustrating problem with SolidWorks (2009 SP2.0,
but it's been a problem since 2008). Every time I do anything - add a
feature, sketch, roll back or forward etc... - the display style
switches to "shaded". It wouldn't bother me so much if it were changed
to ANYTHING else, because the shaded view in SolidWorks is what I
loathe above all else in this universe. Not only is it impossible to
distinguish what the part/assembly actually looks like, let alone see
any of its faces, edges, or features, or even tell its orientation, in
this mode, but I also just find it an abomination to look at.
Furthermore, I cannot use the heads-up toolbar to quickly change the
display mode back to something that does not make me want to gouge my
eyes out with a pocket protector, because nothing happens when I do
this. So, I have to go to the tree, select the body(ies), right-click -

my "VA"R just shrug, scratch their heads, and say "we've never heard
of that before", and I have scoured newsgroups searching for this
problem, all to no avail.

Has anybody else had this problem (and been able to fix it)? If so,
can you *please* help me, before I end up in the eleven o'clock news
for all the wrong reasons?

Cheers, and have a nice day

D

 

I've seen things like this for individual parts, but not a whole
assembly. Do you have configurations in parts or in the assembly?

TOP

 

I would say that the Large Assembly Mode has given me a greater amount
of grief in this. I have had the thing inexplicably "lose" all the
edges periodically, which might be what you are describing? This
seems to happen after a large rebuild and save on larger models. I
have chalked my issues up to my GPU - which is giving me fits right
now...

Things that have helped: Restarts, closing windows that I don't need,
deccelerating the hardware (keeping my graphics cooler). I have found
that my laptop doesn't cool itself well enough to run these larger
models consistently all day and my graphics is suffering. It might be
entirely different issues, but for whatever that might be worth...

I don't know if that helps anything, but maybe something to consider?

Cheers,
Ryan

 

Hi D,

your wrote that you can adress this problem since useing SW 2008. So it might
be connected to the "new" handling of materials in Photoworks. There are several
settings you should check.

E.g. switch off -> "Display PhotoWorks Appearances in SolidWorks Open GL

If you do not use PW at all -> try to turn off PhotoWorks in -> Add ins

There are still some more settings connected to new PW-material handling that I do not
remember anymore. -> Since 2008 Textures / Materials are now called "Appearance"
and are close connected to this crabby tech called "Realview" So please check this, too.

Good luck & regards


Jo

 

It is not a particular part or assembly that I'm having this problem
with, but every part or assembly, and whether there are configurations
or not.

 

Thanks for your suggestions, but I've tried all of those things, to no
avail. I thought of GPU as well, because I had been having other
problems, but the new (and very expensive) video card made matters
worse.

 

Thanks for the tips. I don't have Photoworks load during start-up, if
that's what you mean. I'm not sure what you mean by turning off
"display photoworks appearances". Is that in the system options? Or is
it something that's only available when you open the program in Open
GL mode?

Regards,

D.