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    Antialiased lines with 3D-GPU

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      David.P
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      Hi Forum,

      I have a Nvidia GTX 860M Graphics card which (of course) supports all types of 3D quality settings, for example:

      http://i.imgur.com/xMMqiGz.png

      On an ancient Nvidia graphics card of mine, antialiasing used to work with these settings:

      http://666kb.com/i/b4se7www7k45fpy6z.png

      However, I can't seem to find a settings combination with my current card where simple lines in Sketchup are antialiased.

      Any help regarding the right 3D settings would be greatly appreciated.

      Thanks
      David

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        JQL
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        Let the application (sketchup) decide and tinker with Window > Preferences OpenGL, hardware acceleration settings

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          David.P
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          Whoa! I was not aware that these are actually settings. I thought that this dialog:

          http://img.gameru.net/img/58f26.jpg

          ...listed only video driver capabilities. However highlighting one of the rows DOES indeed change the respective setting. This dialog really should be re-designed using checkboxes!

          Anyway, your tip already helped on my desktop with an AMD Radeon HD 7700 card. Same on the notebook -- when the Intel HD graphics card is chosen for driving Sketchup.

          However, when I chose the Nvidia GPU from the Nvidia control panel for powering Sketchup, all the settings in the OpenGL section of the above dialog are ignored. I mean, there are those different rows with different Antialiasing capabilities (like 2x and 4x), but when highlighting one of them, closing that dialog and re-starting Sketchup, lines are still not anti-aliased but look like this instead:

          http://i.imgur.com/wFIfoPp.png

          Is there anything else I can do to force antialiasing not only on the Intel HD GPU but also with the GTX 860M CPU?

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