Just recently purchased Carlson 2016 w/Intellicad. When I installed my version it wouldn't give me the typical "black screen" drawing palette until I upped the hardware acceleration to 2. Now that I've done that I can open drawings, view them and work on them, but everything is very "jerky" and quirky. Do I have a setting out of place or is my display adapter not powerful enough to handle Intellicad's graphics? It's a new (less than a year old) PC with an Intel HD 4600 graphics card installed. Any ideas?
Maybe F9?
No idea past that.
Black versus white background is a settings option in the AutoCAD version. "Settings/preferences/display/color/background."
I always have to change drawings from a certain engineer who wants to see it as it appears on the paper. I and most others prefer to see it without overloading our eyes with white.
Paul in PA
Never get a computer with just a plain intel graphics card, for CAD I always want a Nvidia graphics card.
VA LS 2867, post: 352306, member: 1444 wrote: Never get a computer with just a plain intel graphics card, for CAD I always want a Nvidia graphics card.
I have a 2 GB NVIDIA Quadro K2000 that chokes with 2 model space viewports open...
How much RAM memory does the PC have? Carlson says http://www.carlsonsw.com/support/system-requirement/&apos ;">here:
[INDENT=1]Graphics card compatible with OpenGL Version 1.4 or higher. Recommended are desktop graphics level discrete (not integrated cards like Intel HD) graphics cards, preferably Nvidia brand due to their more consistent driver support. Powerful gaming cards are not required and probably would not provide as much benefit as investment in more memory or better CPU.[/INDENT]
I figured it out. It was some setting that was changed on my display (I have no idea why). Working fine now. Thanks.
Paul in PA, post: 352299, member: 236 wrote: Black versus white background is a settings option in the AutoCAD version. "Settings/preferences/display/color/background."
I always have to change drawings from a certain engineer who wants to see it as it appears on the paper. I and most others prefer to see it without overloading our eyes with white.
Paul in PA
It's my understanding from testing that the model space in AutoCAD stays at what ever your own preference is. If I work on a white background and your setting is set to black when you open a drawing I send you it will default to your own setting.
The only exception I have seen to this is with Microstation.
I guess I should've been more clear. When I opened the program there was no palette. Not gray, not black, not white NOT NOTHING but a picture of my desktop. I could see my icons, my desktop picture everything. It was if there was a hole in screen. I changed the hardware selection to 2 and then I was able to see the typical black background, but the program was very jerky, quirky and would sometimes freeze. Then I had a friend email me it might be a display setting that I had screwed up and to check my resolution or my color settings. Sure enough it was my color settings. Not sure how I hadn't noticed it. Changed them and now everything works fine.
hlbennettpls, post: 352348, member: 10049 wrote: I guess I should've been more clear. When I opened the program there was no palette. Not gray, not black, not white NOT NOTHING but a picture of my desktop. I could see my icons, my desktop picture everything. It was if there was a hole in screen. I changed the hardware selection to 2 and then I was able to see the typical black background, but the program was very jerky, quirky and would sometimes freeze. Then I had a friend email me it might be a display setting that I had screwed up and to check my resolution or my color settings. Sure enough it was my color settings. Not sure how I hadn't noticed it. Changed them and now everything works fine.
What was the setting, I run Carlson2016 with Icad. Jerky and freezes some too.
Adam, post: 352352, member: 8900 wrote: What was the setting, I run Carlson2016 with Icad. Jerky and freezes some too.
Set your colors to the highest setting possible.
hlbennettpls, post: 352521, member: 10049 wrote: Set your colors to the highest setting possible.
Color setting in Carlson or on your monitor?
My coordinate box jumped left and right constantly. And alot of times the dialog boxes go int the background, and I have to click on the top of the screen to bring the focus back to where it was supposed to. Haven't figured those out yet.
Monitor.