3D view window background color

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hiqserv
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3D view window background color

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When I try to start a new model either in part workshop or part design, everything works until I try to see anything in the 3d window area of the screen, It is black, I try to highlight the origin or planes, and nothing shows up, I have tried the space bar, going into preferences and changing any background colors to light gray. Nothing works, I tried right clicking in the window to find a color setting and nothing. None of the tutorials show this issue.

I am 2.53 gig 4 gigs of ram running a Dell laptop Inspiron n5040 with Intel i3 core, 4 gigs ram and an Intel graphics card 32 bit 60 hz. Opengl.

OS: Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601: SP 1)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)

I have used many cad programs in the past 40 years, with no issues. This computer has run, Autocad 2d and Ideas -8 3d solids.

Hope you can help, I am new to Freecad/
Bob Cue

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Re: 3D view window background color

Post by chrisb »

Hi Bob, welcome to the forum!

I have edited your post and removed the email address, because this forum surely is watched by spammers.

You may have a look at the Known OS specific issues or change the OpenGL or VBO setttings in Preferences->Display->3D View.
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