Trimble Business Center

Hey All

This is small fry but just wondering if any of you are experiencing issues with your plan views? This has been happening to me for quite sometime. You can be working along fine doing the simplest of tasks and the lines including the background gridlines just blow up. Almost like they are being weighted. You open up a new plan view and its back to normal. Not a biggy but just painful doing this multiple times during the day. 

Im running 5.30 but this is been happening in previous versions. Seems to happen a lot more with projects that are large in terms of points and lines. 

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Cheers

Bevan

I have experienced the same thing for many releases. I have been shutting down TBC and then reopening the project. I can not pinpoint what actions are causing this.

This is I am told caused by a Graphics Glitch on the Hoops Graphic Library that we use in TBC to create the Graphics Views. I too have seen them, but not as much recently than as in historic times. It is a similar glitch that causes items that you select to be selected but not highlighted on screen - as you say the fix is to open a New Plan View and then you are goo to go until it happens again.

I am told that this Glitch can be more frequent if Hoops gets more clashes with your Graphics Drivers and this can be mitigated by some of the following

1) Make sure that your Graphics Card Drivers are 100% up to date

2 Make sure that your Windows installation is 100% up to date - and run Windows Update and take all updates rather than let your IS department control which updates you get - I know that at Trimble the IS department releases certain Windows updates only and you do not get full Windows Updates unless you do it manually for example

3) Make sure that your System is 100% up to date - take all BIOS and System Updates from your PC Provider eg Dell. and do that regularly.

Lastly use Support - Options - Advanced and try a different Graphics Display Driver if you are still having issues - mine defaults to DirectX 11 but you can override that and use DirectX 9 or Open GL or Open GL2 etc. and see if one of those approaches causes less glitches / no Glitches - this can be an effect of the age of your Laptop, the Graphics Card and Version and also the System of your PC that can cause Glitches - if you are fully up to date then you should see better performance.

Alan