wide screen

[phil darcy]

Thinking about upgrading to wide 22" screen,ordered Quardo FX1000 card I wondered what the feeling is of using wide screens.

Have heard that some times things don't appear correct.

[b_daddy]

You will have to play with the settings for the screen resolutions in order for everything to look correct, I have mine set to 1920 x 1200. Works very well w/MCX.

[gcode]

Last year, someone on the forum bought a Dell

workstation with a Quadro video card and widescreen monitor.

Circles appeares eggshaped and monitor seemd useless for Cad/Cam work.

The solution was to uninstall the Dell supplied video card drivers and replace them with Nvidia Quadro drivers.

[JNO]

I just got two Dell 20" monitors. It says right on the package what to set the resolution to. mine are at 1680-1050. I previously had one 17" screen, talk about night and day.

[jctjct]

I am using 2 20" widescreens as well with latest Quadro drivers, version 91.36. It was just fine with one @ 1680x1050, and even better with 2 side by side at that resolution.

[Kelly Burns]

Ok. What are the benefits of having dual monitors? Are you able to split screens, or have one giant picture encapusling both monitors? I know that you can split applications between them, but thats about it. Could someone explain this to me, currently using a 17" monitor.

[Tom L]

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Ok. What are the benefits of having dual monitors?

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In a nutshell, how many times do you alt+tab

in a day?

 

I, like so many others, run mcam on one and cimco

editor on the other.

 

HTH

[Kelly Burns]

Soooo....The IT guy just showed me the benefits of this. Im supposed to find out if you guys are splitting between a cheap vidio card for the dual application and the nvidia for mastercam or just using an extremly expensive nvidia card for all applications. Currently using nvidia GEforce 6600 and I dont know if it supports dual monitors or not.

[cqualls]

Learn something new everyday. I had never used the alt-tab before.

[HevyMetl]

I use a Quadro FX3450 for all of my applications. Mainly Pro and MC. I run Dual 20's and hopefully soon dual 24's. I have my resolutions set at 1600 x 1200 and everything appears properly on the screen.

[phil darcy]

Thanks every one for the input

[phil darcy]

one more thing is 1680x1050 enough res for screen

I see so folks are higher

acer 22'

[cadcam]

I have a 17 wide screen laptop and 3 15 wide laptop screen MC-X works great and gives you more room in he native settings.

I have not seen the egg shape on any of the wide screens including the 24" from dell that works really nice.

[Jeremy Haage from MCAM NorthWest]

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Circles appeares eggshaped and monitor seemd useless for Cad/Cam work.

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When the circles appear eggshaped it's usually a setting in the display drivers. This happens on the widescreen monitors when you set them to use a standard (non-widescreen) display resolution and it stretches the image to fit the monitor. You can use a standard (non-widescreen) display resolution but it needs to be configured in your display settings. This results in black space on the left & right sides of the monitor (since it isn't stretching it to fit the whole screen).

[gcode]

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Im supposed to find out if you guys are splitting between a cheap vidio card for the dual application and the nvidia for mastercam or just using an extremly expensive nvidia card for all applications.

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I would guess most people are running a Quadro FX Cad/Cam card. You want to make sure your card supports DUAL DIGITAL (DVI) output.

At one point I had a Quadro FX-500 which had one digital and one analog slot. With 2 monitors running side by side, the analog monitor really looked bad... really really bad.

 

After looking at the specs, it looks like the

FX-550 is the bottom of the line for dual DVI

Quadro FX specs_ PCI Express

Personally, I wouldn't go any lower than the

FX-1400

I'm sure some of the better Nvidia gaming cards have dual DVI output, but I didn't have any luck finding a comparison chart.

 

edit: the above recommendadtion is for dual monitors of regular width. The new wide screen format requires pretty high end cards

 

Dell Wide Screen Video card recommendations

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

NVidia IS the card of choice for serious CAD/CAM/CAE work. ATI is crap, though two of the CATIA workstations where I work have ATI Workstation class cards. We'll see how well they work when I crank up the resolution and the Photo-Realistic rendering.

[JNO]

I also use the Quadro FX3450 card, went from one screen to two 20"Dell's without any major changes.