While it is hard to give numbers for recommended TPS, it is easy to say that for larger assemblies, the Onshape experience is better with a discrete (dedicated) graphics card. The more TPS your computer can render, the faster a model will be rendered to the screen on open and the more smoothly it will rotate. This is expressed as triangles per second (TPS) and represents most of the work being done by your computer.

The system check (explained above) also provides insight into the rendering performance of your computer as currently configured. More information for all of these browser settings is available at. Restart your browser for changes to take effect.Ensure that Use hardware acceleration when available is checked.Navigate to Browser and scroll down to System.Click Safari and select Preferences from the menu.However, unlike Chrome, Firefox does not require this checkbox to be checked for WebGL to work.Go to Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing.Like Chrome, Firefox has a Use hardware acceleration when available checkbox:.If your graphics card/drivers are blacklisted, you may override the blacklist:.If the status is something like Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues or Blocked for your graphics driver version, then your graphics card/driver is blacklisted.If the status contains a graphics card manufacturer, model and driver (eg: NVIDIA Corporation - NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M OpenGL Engine), then WebGL is enabled.Inspect the WebGL Renderer row in the Graphics table:.Search for webgl.disabled and ensure its value is false.Enable the flag called Override software rendering list.If it’s still not working, try to force WebGL hardware rendering via the following: Relaunch Chrome so any changes take effect.Ĭheck Onshape at this point.Scroll down to the System section and ensure the Use hardware acceleration when available checkbox is checked.Click the Advanced dropdown on the left side of the window.ChromeĮnsure WebGL is on and hardware accelerated is checked first:

If you make these changes while running Onshape, simply refresh your browser for the changes to take effect. Legacy operating systems, such as Windows XP, can lack modern driver and browser support, and hence may not run Onshape, even with these work-arounds. A list is available at and steps are listed below to override the blacklist in Chrome and Firefox. Some graphics cards are blacklisted because of poor WebGL support.

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