Topic: C3D - Point or Surface Label?

[mjfarrell]

design center is your friend
or map

[Guest]

Hey, don't make him hate on C3D and autodesk.....




that's my job.

My list of "hate" items is increasing...  Right now, at the top is the pan/zoom *BOOM* drawing image becomes giant pixels!!  And the only way to "fix" it is to save, close, re-open.

AH HA!!  See??

Regen, regenall and/or redraw don't do squat to fix it!!

[Dinosaur]

I see a reboot in your future . . . ommmmmmm

[sinc]

AH HA!!  See??

Regen, regenall and/or redraw don't do squat to fix it!!

Looks like a video card issue...?

It's something I've never seen on the various computers around here.

[Guest]

AH HA!!  See??

Regen, regenall and/or redraw don't do squat to fix it!!

Looks like a video card issue...?

It's something I've never seen on the various computers around here.

It's a 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS video card.

[Dinosaur]

Yea, its not what I used to see either.  Sinc is probably right about the video card looking at that mess.  Have you tried switching to a tab and viewport with a fixed scale and then back or perhaps changing the drawing scale, or are you completely frozen from issuing any commands?

[mjfarrell]

NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 graphics processors feature the award-winning GeForce 8 Series architecture with unparalleled levels of graphics realism and performance for Microsoft® DirectX® 9 and DirectX 10 games for the pricepoint.


Nice, card for playing GAMES you've got yourself.

Now go get a REAL video card, QUADRO chipset, WORKSTATION graphics card.

Or get the latest drivers from autodesks, from the product compatability list (driver search tool)

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/hc?siteID=123112&id=6711853&linkID=9240618

[Dinosaur]

Also is this the only drawing blowing razzberries at you like this or is it a pandemic in your office?

[Guest]

Hey... I work with what I'm given.  I don't have any control over the computers/hardware.

[Guest]

Also is this the only drawing blowing razzberries at you like this or is it a pandemic in your office?

Not sure yet.  This is the first time it's happened in quite some time.

[Dinosaur]

An audit on that drawing wouldn't be out of order at all in case it has gone buggared somehow . . . and you might be able to find something through a MAP session . . . but as this is Civil 3D that might not work and we don't want to set Michael off on THAT again just yet.

[mjfarrell]

Hey... I work with what I'm given.  I don't have any control over the computers/hardware.

Well,  hardware can COST a company more money than they THINK they saved.

And to those that suggest that they can't afford the right hardware; You can't afford to NOT have the right hardware.

Everytime a machine crashes put 50$ in a jar, and watch how quickly you are spending the money they saved in crashes.  At the end of the month take a look at the lost profits. And then decide what you can afford. Good cad stations are actually cheaper to build, than to track the lost profits from a cheaply built box.

[mjfarrell]

post that file here for us to examine

[mjfarrell]

An audit on that drawing wouldn't be out of order at all in case it has gone buggared somehow . . . and you might be able to find something through a MAP session . . . but as this is Civil 3D that might not work and we don't want to set Michael off on THAT again just yet.

Why NOT!

I'm always ready to vetch about MAP not working with C3D objects........

[Jeff_M]

FWIW I have 2 machines running the GeForce 8600GT's w/512mb and have never had a problem with them.

Michael, I don't have links to back this up, but last summer I was looking for a better card for a Vista system, the GeForce blew the doors off of much more expensive Quadro's. This was due to the GeForce's being optimized for DirectX10, where the Quadro's were optimized for OpenGL.