Civil 3D restores down between minimize-maximize

[Hidden_Brain]

very strange behavior, every time i minimize Civil 3D to the windows taskbar at the bottom of my secondary monitor, then maximize it again, the overall Civil 3D window will restore down (the effect that you get when you click on the icon on top right corner of every program that looks like two overlapping squares). has anyone else experienced this behavior? below are the details:

Civil 3D 2011

Win 7 enterprise 64 bit

8 GB RAM

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

hadware acceleration on or of does not make any difference

Civil 3D is open on primary monitor, the windows taskbar is at the bottom of secondary monitor whre Civil 3D minimizes to

having Civil 3D open on primary monitor, then minimize-maximize has the same effect

[neilyj666]

Yes  I get this too - run fullscreen on primary monitor, minimise to taskbar, click on taskbar and C3D opens in a much smaller window - very irritating

[Hidden_Brain]

the plot thickens

this only happens when i have multiple dwgs open in the same Civil 3D session. if i have only one drawing open, this does not occur.

[wfberry]

I believe that it restores to the previous "non-maximized" size, so if you manually stretch your cad screen to "near" maximum as possible, it should return there.

Bill

[Hidden_Brain]

yeah, that's what i have as of now, the window stretched to the max. extent to give an impression of a "pseudo" maximized window. i would still like to find the reason behind this behavior.

[neilyj666]

Yeah - that works for me too. Most likley to be a C3D bug as this behaviour doesn't occur with any other software

[ljacobs]

We are experiencing the same issue on 2 machines in our office but with AutoCAD MEP 2011. Anyone find out why it does this?