part editor glitch ?

[greg youngken]

I take a counter from the detail layout room to the part editor to round a corner or cut a sink and upon retuning the image of the counter is badly distorted, for example the granite now looks like stripes. Is this me or has anyone else experienced this? I was searching the post but there are 3000 post to sift thru. By the way Iv'e been really busy building so I haven't been around much, sorry. greg

[Rick Palechuk]

Can you post the job file Greg, and we will see what it looks like.

[Justin Melhiser]

Greg
When you go back to the room, check over on the left hand side and click on the enhanced view button. See if this helps with the view.

[greg youngken]

after rebooting my system the problem went away. I noticed this seems to be an intermitant problem for me somtimes it does ok and some times it doesn't, it can happen with a counter or a display cube. Here is the file anyway if you want to have a look.

[DanEpps]

What kind of video card do you have in the computer Greg?

[greg youngken]

Dan, here are my system specs from an old post, yes it does appear to be an imaging problem in displaying the textures, but it only happens when exiting the part editor. It doesn't always happen, just seems to do it when I'm on a deadline. Go figure ? Maybe a ghost

thanks for the look

E-machines T5212 dual core pentium D 805 at 2.66 ghz each ( may actually be single core programed as double,but my hardware check list 2 seperate cores)
533 mhz fsb
2 gig ram/ddr2
Virtual memory set at 3072-4096
Window Xp media sp-2
Nvidia 7900 256 mg

[DanEpps]

The machine itself should be fine but the video card is designed for gaming instead of technical applications. It does support OpenGL (used by CAD programs and eCabinets) but emphasis is more on Direct3D for gaming.

The card has 256MB of memory, which is certainly plenty for eCabinets, but I'm not sure whether that is dedicated memory on the card or if it "steals" part of its memory from the system. If a reboot clears the problem, which it looks like it did, the video card may be using shared memory.

It sounds like you can get by this when it happens again by rebooting.