{"id":131,"date":"2017-05-25T18:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T06:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2017-05-25T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T06:43:30","slug":"realview-and-opengl-in-solidworks-in-parallels-on-the-hackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/realview-and-opengl-in-solidworks-in-parallels-on-the-hackintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Realview and OpenGL in Solidworks in Parallels on the Hackintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those orange lines in a Solidworks drawing when mousing over a part&#8230; they were taking FOREVER to render! So, I did a lot of research, and this is what I found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RealView was greyed out:<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.44.52-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134\" title=\"No RealView\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.44.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.44.52-PM.png 576w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.44.52-PM-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Solidworks was using Software OpenGL with no way of disabling it:<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.44.29-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132\" title=\"Software OpenGL\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.44.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.44.29-PM.png 601w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.44.29-PM-253x300.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I have an Nvidia GForce GTX 770 graphics card in my Hackintosh. It&#8217;s not the best, but it&#8217;s also no slouch and it certainly is capable of doing the nice stuff with Solidworks&#8230; with a registry hack or two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER &#8211; I&#8217;m not sitting in front of your computer. You are. If anything stops working or breaks after following my instructions, it&#8217;s all your fault, not mine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Solidworks supports the really high-end Nvidia cards. This means the Quadro series mainly. The GTX 770 isn&#8217;t supported. However, it&#8217;s closely related to a Quadro. Over to Wikipedia, and we discover that it&#8217;s closest relative is the Quadro K5000:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.58.11-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135\" title=\"Quadro K5000\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.58.11-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1445\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.58.11-PM.png 1445w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.58.11-PM-300x10.png 300w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.58.11-PM-1024x36.png 1024w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-5.58.11-PM-500x17.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1445px) 100vw, 1445px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0This gives us some really usefull information. We&#8217;re going to make Solidworks think we&#8217;re running a Quadro K5000!<\/li>\n<li>Now we need to hack the registry. Open it using regedit and <strong>BACK UP YOUR REGISTRY!!! DO IT!!!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Under <em id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1495689916516_522\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\SolidWorks\\SolidWorks <em id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1495689916516_522\">&lt;your Solidworks version&gt;<\/em>\\Performance\\Graphics\\Hardware\\Current,\u00a0<\/em>copy the value for the Renderer string:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.12.09-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138\" title=\"Renderer String\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.12.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"884\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.12.09-PM.png 884w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.12.09-PM-300x41.png 300w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.12.09-PM-500x69.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0in our case, it&#8217;s &#8220;Parallels using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 OpenGL Engine&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Under\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1495689916516_522\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\SolidWorks\\SolidWorks &lt;your Solidworks version&gt;\\Performance\\Graphics\\Hardware\\Gl2Shaders\\NV40 <\/em>find the Quadro K5000 key and note the value for the Workarounds DWord:<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.08.58-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137\" title=\"DWord Value\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.08.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.08.58-PM.png 654w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.08.58-PM-300x35.png 300w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.08.58-PM-500x59.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a>In our case, it&#8217;s 40408<\/li>\n<li>Right click on the\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1495689916516_522\"> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\SolidWorks\\SolidWorks &lt;your Solidworks version&gt;\\Performance\\Graphics\\Hardware\\GI2Shaders\\Other <\/em>and select &#8220;New&#8221; and &#8220;Key&#8221;. Paste the value that you copied from step 3, but <strong>remove<\/strong> reference to OpenGL. In our case it becomes\u00a0&#8220;Parallels using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770&#8221; (Without the quots)<\/li>\n<li>Right click in the right window and select &#8220;New&#8221; and &#8220;DWORD (32-bit) Value&#8221;. Name the new DWord &#8220;Workarounds&#8221; (without the quotes) and set its value to the value found in step 4 (in our case, 40408):<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.19.47-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-139\" title=\"Workarounds\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.19.47-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.19.47-PM.png 666w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.19.47-PM-300x41.png 300w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.19.47-PM-500x69.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now select\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1495689916516_522\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\SolidWorks\\SolidWorks\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1495689916516_522\">&lt;your Solidworks version&gt;<\/em>\\Performance\\Graphics\\Hardware\\<\/em><em>Parallels and NVIDIA Corporation\u00a0<\/em>and set the &#8220;Workarounds&#8221; DWord value to the value found in step 4 (Again, in our case, 40408):<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.25.51-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141\" title=\"Workarounds\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.25.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.25.51-PM.png 689w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.25.51-PM-300x33.png 300w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.25.51-PM-500x55.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now select\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1495689916516_522\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\SolidWorks\\SolidWorks\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1495689916516_522\">&lt;your Solidworks version&gt;<\/em>\\Performance\\Graphics\\Hardware\\<\/em><em>Parallels Inc. and NVIDIA Corporation <\/em>and set the &#8220;Workarounds&#8221; DWord&#8221; value to the value found in step 4 (Again, in our case, 40408):<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.28.19-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-140\" title=\"Workarounds\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.28.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.28.19-PM.png 676w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.28.19-PM-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.28.19-PM-500x53.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Exit Regedit. This saves the registry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You now have working hardware OpenGL:<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.31.10-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142\" title=\"OpenGL Working\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.31.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.31.10-PM.png 623w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.31.10-PM-261x300.png 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/a>and working RealView:<a href=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.32.37-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-143\" title=\"RealView Working\" src=\"http:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.32.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.32.37-PM.png 574w, https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-25-at-6.32.37-PM-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a>This should work for other card models too, provided you select the correct Workarounds value<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those orange lines in a Solidworks drawing when mousing over a part&#8230; they were taking FOREVER to render! So, I did a lot of research, and this is what I found: RealView was greyed out: Solidworks was using Software OpenGL &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/realview-and-opengl-in-solidworks-in-parallels-on-the-hackintosh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[51,50,52,49],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hackintosh","tag-opengl","tag-parallels","tag-realview","tag-solidworks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collingwood.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}