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[Mark Hockett]

I cannot get the ribbon bar icons to highlight when I click on them. One example would be when I create a line. If I click on the vertical or multi line icons they do not highlight so it is hard to know what is on and what isn't. This also happens in the tool filter menu. I have to click on "none" to make sure there are no tools selected and the pick a tool such as flat end mills or drills.

 

This is happening on both of my computers, one running XP and one running Vista.

 

Thanks,

Mark Hockett

[Thad]

Sounds like a video card issue. It could possibly be tweaked by turning down hardware acceleration a notch. This seems to fix some video glitches.

 

What kind of video card to do you have in these computers?

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Thad

[Mark Hockett]

Thad,

The desk top XP computer in the shop has a Nvidia Geforce 9400 GT

 

My lap top is the Vista computer and has an ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics.

 

I use the lap top when traveling, when I visit customers and for a Mastercam class at the local college.

 

Thanks for the welcome!

[Thad]

Mark,

 

ATI cards have given MC problems for years. Nvidia seems to be the preferred card, although I'm not sure where your particular card falls in "the rankings." There are people here that are much more knowledgeable than I on the subject, so I'll have to bow out at this point. Hopefully, gcode or one of the others will be by to help you out. I *will* say that most problems eventually get resolved by either a different (sometimes older) graphics driver or a change in the hardware acceleration. So, have no fear!

 

Thad

[Mark Hockett]

Thad,

I would like to get a new video card for the shop computer, what is the recommended video card?

 

Thanks,

[gcode]

Quadro FX is the preferred line of video

cards for Mastercam. An FX-1800 is an excellent card. A hi end Nvidia GeForce gaming card will work too, if Quadros bust your bidget.

 

One ting to try on your existing card.. turn all the Vista eyecandy ( Areo ??) off.

I don't know how to do that in Vista.. In XP

its means turning video performance to Max Performance

[Thad]

Turn off Aero effects in Windows Vista

[Mark Hockett]

I turned off the aero effects on the Vista computer and that worked great. I will try to max the video performance on the shop computer sometime this weekend and see if that works. I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks for the help!!