idslk
Alibre Super User
i'm pretty sure Alibre.exe does not look into the help file during startup...
v25 is now live - June 20, 2022
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jasonmburns
Member
According to Alibre Help, that is supposed to default to toggling the grid in sketch mode.
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idslk
Alibre Super User
That's what i found too
"quick fix":
Goto System Options/KeyboardShortcuts and then:
If you change the first occurence of the keyboard shortcut for Global Parameters:
click into field:
change shortcut for example to:
accept with OK-Button
Your shortcut to the Grid (CTRL-Shift-G) should now work as described in the HELP. (You also have a newly defined shortcut to GP) (as long as you don't reset the shortcuts to default...)
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Stefan
Ex Machina
Member
Hello everyone, first post in these forums here.
I have been using v24 for a few months now and just updated to v25. I am on a laptop with an iGPU (AMD Radeon) and a discrete GPU (RTX3060). I have selected the RTX in the system options, I went to the Graphics display in the Windows setting and set Alibre Design to "High Performance", but the software still uses the iGPU and the performance is annoyingly lower. v24 worked perfectly up till today when I updated.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to check another option somewhere?
I have been using v24 for a few months now and just updated to v25. I am on a laptop with an iGPU (AMD Radeon) and a discrete GPU (RTX3060). I have selected the RTX in the system options, I went to the Graphics display in the Windows setting and set Alibre Design to "High Performance", but the software still uses the iGPU and the performance is annoyingly lower. v24 worked perfectly up till today when I updated.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to check another option somewhere?
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Ex Machina
Member
I did all that and it wasn't working. And then I thought about it...
I reinstalled v25, didn't do the graphics display setting and:
1) In the software's System Options it says it's using the AMD Radeon iGPU
2) The performance is great and when I use the software the Task Manager reports that the discrete GPU is being used. And so does the ASUS utility.
Could this be a bug, possibly?
P.S. This is a laptop with no mux switch for the GPUs...
I reinstalled v25, didn't do the graphics display setting and:
1) In the software's System Options it says it's using the AMD Radeon iGPU
2) The performance is great and when I use the software the Task Manager reports that the discrete GPU is being used. And so does the ASUS utility.
Could this be a bug, possibly?
P.S. This is a laptop with no mux switch for the GPUs...
In modern dual GPU laptops, the integrated GPU is always connected to the screen - in 'high performance' mode it acts rather like a frame buffer between the discrete GPU and the screen.
Now that doesn't give a direct answer - but the 'switch' in system options pre-dates the arrangements for recent laptops.
Now that doesn't give a direct answer - but the 'switch' in system options pre-dates the arrangements for recent laptops.
Ex Machina
Member
OK, fair enough. It's just that in v24, I'm pretty sure it worked as intended... Anyways, thanks for the quick responses.
Ex Machina
Member
Ah yes, didn't think about assigning it through the NVidia Panel. Thanks. I'll try that too.
simonb65
Alibre Super User
Also remember that v25 is installed in a different location (it's own directory). So the file that the performance is set to points towards the old v24 .exe in the Alibre design directory! You need to add the new v25 .exe which is somewhere else. The performance applications only point to specific .exe's. Click on the Alibre Design above and check where the file path is pointing to, I think you'll find it's not the v25 .exe as you (and many others) may be assuming!I have been using v24 for a few months now and just updated to v25. I am on a laptop with an iGPU (AMD Radeon) and a discrete GPU (RTX3060). I have selected the RTX in the system options, I went to the Graphics display in the Windows setting and set Alibre Design to "High Performance", but the software still uses the iGPU and the performance is annoyingly lower. v24 worked perfectly up till today when I updated.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to check another option somewhere?
Not sure is Alibre have considered this negative side effect of having side-by-side installs! @Max, can you confirm if this has been considered.
NateLiqGrav
Alibre Super User
I thought about this a while back: It might be beneficial to create a loader program called Alibre.exe that sits at a constant location and when executed passes all called parameters to the correct version .exe (located based on a setting stored in the registry). An additional (separate .exe) version selection utility program could be created to keep track of what versions are installed, change the registry per user selection, or uninstall a version.
simonb65
Alibre Super User
+1, great solution Nate.
HaroldL
Alibre Super User
Good idea Nate. That would fix the issue that now when I download a part/file and select Open with in the download dialog I need to navigate out to the correct version of Alibre to open it with. Just another quirk that goes with allowing multiple versions to be installed I guess.