SetDisplayMode is missing option Mode, please help?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi…,

I have here one Rhino 5 SR 9 (32-Bit) version, where in the SetDisplayMode the option Mode is missing, so I can’t shade my viewports with the “Shaded viewport” button. What to check?

Thanks

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com

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Try importing it again using this:
Shaded.ini (11.5 KB)
Michael VS

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Strange. ARe you sure that’s an extrusion and not just a wireframe "box"
What happens if your run the Box command?
Try right-clicking on the viewport name and choose Shaded there.

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Hi Michael - does any of the other ‘shaded’ modes work, like Ghosted or Rendered? Does the Shaded display mode in Options > View >Display Modes show as default (i.e. no blue text in the settings)?

-Pascal

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Hi Michael, I will test your ini-file. Thanks

Hi John and Pascal,

non of the buttons from the shade toolbar are working (no shade, no xray, no ghosted,…). John, the object type is not important (no difference between Brep, Lightweight nor mesh).

Shading, X-Ray, etc. work only from the context menu of the viewport, see attached picture.

Cheers,

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com

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Hi Michael,

my Rhino 5 doesn’t import your shaded.ini file with _OptionsImport (get an error) and copying the complete options from a working installation doesn’t help neither. Hm?

Regards

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com

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Hi Michael - import directly into Options > View > DisplayModes page - there is a button there for that.

(I agree it is getting a little messy with the various routes to save and import settings…)

-Pascal

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Hi Michael - can you please try ToolbatReset, if you have not, and restart Rhino?

thanks,

-Pascal

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Hi Pascal,

thanks, but it didn’t help.

Cheers

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com

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Please take a screenshot of the settings in Options - View - OpenGL and attach it to a reply.

Thanks

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Hi John,

here it comes.

To me the SetDisplayMode command is corrupt, because the Mode option is missing.

Regards

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com

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OK.
Go back into the same OpenGL Options page.
Check the first option and uncheck the next two.
Then take another screenshot.
The lower part of the page that describes your hardware will change and have new information.

Thanks

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Hi John,

here the snapshot:

Regards

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com

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OK, it is as I feared.
Turn off the accelerated hardware option.

That is an unsupported, old, Intel graphics chip that will never work correctly.
It does not support Rhino’s minimum System Requirements.

Please advise the user to replace the system if it is an old laptop, or replace the graphics card if it is a Desktop system.

http://www.rhino3d.com/new/admin#system
http://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/rhino5videocards

Good luck

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Hi John,

I am confused, the graphics works very fine. In the viewport context menue I can switch shaded, rendered, x-ray, etc. on without any problem. Online the toolbar buttons are not working, even in software mode. I can’t believe it is the graphic card, with Microsoft OpenGL software emulation the shading buttons don’t work neither.

Thanks

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com

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I can duplicate this problem here.
If I use icon from Standard toolbar, it does not complete:

Command: '_SetDisplayMode
    Select a display mode ( Viewport=Active ): _Viewport=_Active
    Select a display mode ( Viewport=Active ): _Mode=_Shaded
    Select a display mode ( Viewport=Active ):

The last line stays in the command line, it doesn’t understand Mode.

If I use the macro below (i.e. without Mode), it works as expected:

'_SetDisplayMode
_Viewport=_Active
_Shaded

v5 SR9, 64-bit,

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On another computer with the same OS (Win 8.1) and Rhino 5 (sr9 64bit) it works as expected:

Command: '_SetDisplayMode
Select a display mode ( Viewport=Active  Mode=Wireframe ): _Viewport=_Active
Select a display mode ( Viewport=Active  Mode=Wireframe ): _Mode=_Shaded
Display mode set to "Shaded".

Any ideas who or what is hiding “Mode” option within SetDisplayMode on some computers?