Alias Speedform 2018 strange issue

[Anonymous]

I am new to Alias Speedform 2018, and the canvas images are vissible only if i click on them in the browser tree and once i move my mouse away from the tree, the canvas images disappear and become something dark or black box.

[rauscht]

Hi,

the effect that you are seeing is somewhat hard to reproduce on my end. Let's try to figure out what is going on here:

• According to your first screen shot, you are in the process of defining a Canvas Image. In other words: there is no Canvas defined that needs to be displayed yet. Is that correct?
• On the other hand: In the same screen shot, you are asked to select a planar face, a plane or a sketch plane to put the image on to. What puzzles me is how the triad (i.e. origin, all axis, xy-, xz- and yz-plane plus labels) gets displayed on your machine. They are all black! I am wondering if we are facing a problem with your graphics card?! Can you provide some information about your GC please?
• In the second screen shot, it seems that you already have a Canvas (actually three) n your model. However, things look similarly weird.
• According to that second screen shot and your description, the different display types that we distinguish seem to act like follows:
  • Canvas Selected: Black box
    That is what we are seeing in the screen shot. The canvas was probably picked in the browser left as the tree item "Side view" is dark blue
  • Hover Over Canvas: Image is visible and should be displayed brighter than usual (is that what you are seeing at your end?)
    For instance, that is happening when the mouse is being moved over the according browser entry without clicking on the tree item.
  • Hover Over Selected Canvas: Image is visible and should be displayed blueish (is that what you are seeing at your end?)
  • Canvas Not selected: Nothing at all (Is that correct?)
    Do de-select the canvas, simply click somewhere into the empty space

How is your display behaving when you are looking at geometry (e.g. a primitive box)? Is it just the same?

What is your OS? Are you using a VM on a Mac (like Parallels, VMWare etc.)?

Thanks

Thomas