User`s guide

NVIDIA Corporation
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CONFIDENTIAL
NVIDIA QuadroView User’s Guide
1. About NVIDIA QuadroView
What is NVIDIA QuadroView?. . . . . . . . . . . 1
NVIDIA QuadroView Modules . . . . . . . . . 2
Using QuadroView as a Stand-alone Viewer . . . 3
Who Needs a Presentation? . . . . . . . . . . 3
How the Customer Can View Files . . . . . . . . 4
NVIDIA QuadroView as a Demo Viewer . . . . . 4
Using QuadroView as a CAD Viewer . . . . . . . 5
How NVIDIA QuadroView Can Locate and
Prevent Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
QuadroView as a Visualization Tool . . . . . . . . 6
QuadroView Features and Benefits Summary . . 7
Recent Features and Enhancements . . . . . 8
2. Overview of Basic Components
User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Navigation Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Viewer Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Examiner Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Fly Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Walk Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Input Devices & Output Formats . . . . . . . . 20
NVIDIA QuadroView Configuration . . . . . . . 21
Configuration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Common QuadroView and AutoCAD-linked
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
How AutoCAD Link Works . . . . . . . . . . . 22
AutoCAD Link Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
QuadroView File Link . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
File Formats for File Link Modes . . . . . . . 24
Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
More About Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Color and Material Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . 27
More Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3. System Requirements And
Support
Release History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Supported Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Online Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Disk Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Hardware: Supported NVIDIA Products . . . 31
Stereo Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
NVIDIA Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Software Components . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
AutoCAD Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Supported Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3D Input Devices: Magellan/SpaceMouse /
CyberPuck / SpaceController . . . . . . . 33
Shutter Glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4. Installation and Uninstallation
Before You Install QuadroView . . . . . . . . . 36
Installing QuadroView. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Standard Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Silent Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Starting QuadroView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Starting QuadroView in Stand-alone Mode . 37
Loading QuadroView in AutoCAD . . . . . . 38
Uninstalling QuadroView. . . . . . . . . . . 39
5. QuadroView Menus
NVIDIA QuadroView Menus . . . . . . . . . . 40
Main Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Context-Sensitive Popup Menus . . . . . . 40
File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Camera Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Edit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Window Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Help Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6. QuadroView Toolbars
NVIDIA QuadroView Toolbar in AutoCAD . . . 48
Standard Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3D Input Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Animation Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Saving an AVI File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Editors Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Render Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Stereo Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Viewer Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Views Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7. QuadroView Editors
Animation Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Background Color Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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