From the course: Hardware Configuration for AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor

Using GRAPHICSCONFIG

From the course: Hardware Configuration for AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor

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Using GRAPHICSCONFIG

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- [Instructor] Now, that we're back in AutoCAD in our plate.dwg file, I can show you how you can configure your hardware in AutoCAD, in the AutoCAD application, so that all your settings in AutoCAD are utilizing those hardware configurations that you've previously set in your Windows operating system. Now, we're in a very simple drawing, like I said, a simple 3D solid that represents a plate with four holes in it. What we're going to do is make sure that our dynamic input down here is switched on, there's dynamic input there. So mine is on, you can see the little blue icon indicating that I've clicked it's on. Can you see that? It's blue when it's on. Now, if you haven't got a dynamic input down at the bottom on the status bar, go to customization, and what you've got up here is dynamic input. Just make sure it's ticked like so, and then click on the little burger icon, the little three lines there to switch that menu off. And you will now see your dynamic input icon there. Just make sure it's on, it's called din mode and it's on like so, now the reason I want it on is I want to show you the suggestion menu in AutoCAD. So you type graphics, like that. And as soon as you get to G R A P H, you can see there's graphics config in the suggestion menu, so you don't have to type the whole word, graphics config and there's our graphics performance in AutoCAD, like so. Now the benefit you've got here is it tells you your hardware set up. So there it is there, our video card is Radeon PRO WX 8200, driver version, virtual device and so on. Now I'm going to go into each of these settings individually as we work through the chapter. So don't worry about any of the settings in the effect settings, the hard work acceleration, and so on. I'm going to go through all of these and explain in detail what they do. What's really important though is if you do make any changes to your graphics config, your graphics performance in AutoCAD, you can restore the defaults just by clicking that button there. So that will restore all of the default settings and you select okay to reset AutoCAD to the default graphics performance settings. This will then take effect the next time AutoCAD is launched. You can also click on cancel to preserve the existing settings, which is what I'm going to do. And I'm then just simply going to click on okay to confirm that my graphics config is what I wanted to do. So, that's how you find your graphics configuration in AutoCAD, which is how you're going to configure your GPU hardware to run with AutoCAD in your particular Windows, OS installation of AutoCAD, perhaps in your place of work or in your office or in your office at home where you work from home. And what we're going to do is just go through each of those in detail, so that you're aware of what each of those graphics conflict settings does to AutoCAD when you're working in your AutoCAD drawings.

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