Saturday, April 7, 2012

Disable Grayed Solidworks Use Software OpenGL option


This is for Intel HD3000 integrated Graphics chip:

To un-check the grayed the SolidWorks 2011 OpenGl just follow the below mentioned steps.

1. Open this registry branch
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2010\Performance\Graphics\Hardware\Intel (In the left Panel)

Then select the right side Workarounds and change the value from 10 to 9.

Now open the Solidworks just check Options --> Performance --> Use software OpenGL in SolidWorks It should be unchecked.

If you are using other than Intel try your respective ATI or Radeon workaround values.

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