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We all complain about AutoCAD screen real estate...

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Message 1 of 34
pendean
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We all complain about AutoCAD screen real estate...

.. but who is so crazy for it they run AutoCAD in CLEANSCREEN all the time (or a good portion of the time)?

 

And if you are not brave enough to do so:

  1. what do you do to pick up more real estate?
  2. what size monitor do you use?
  3.  Do you dare to post a screenshot of your full screen?

 

I'm on a 25" screen and other than toggling my ribbon to "minimize to panel buttons" I do nothing else.

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Message 21 of 34

Nice to see I'm not the only one who prefers the start bar on the side instead of the bottom.


Melanie Stone
Facilities Data Management
IWMS / CAFM / CMMS / AutoCAD / Archibus / Tririga / Planon / MRI Manhattan CenterStone / Revit / data normalization, data mapping, reporting and process documentation
mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/
Message 22 of 34
volusiajim
in reply to: pendean

One 19" monitor to run gis, civil, excel, ect.  Government...sigh Smiley Wink

Message 23 of 34
Charles_Shade
in reply to: volusiajim

That is tough with 4 others guys standing around looking at it too! Smiley Very HappySmiley Very Happy

Message 24 of 34
jggerth1
in reply to: pendean

At the office, running with two 24" dell widescreen monitors.  At home I was running a pair of older19" NECs (not widescreen) but just added a 24" Asus widescreen, and moved the 19"ers  out to the sides.  Really need a slightly longer dvi cable for the one at the left though.

 

The Asus has USB-3 but dammit the ports on the side and almost interferes with the left hand 19". still better than getting to the back of the tower to plug in a flash drive.

Message 25 of 34
AcadAdamLT
in reply to: jggerth1

Going with 32" and 24" at the office.

32" for Autocad and 24" for Excel / Outlook / Adobe / Word etc..

I think I need like 3-4 monitors, I often work with Excel, PDF and Autocad parallel to each other...

Nothing annoys me more then having to switch windows on a screen..

Signature, sincerely... //Adam
AutoCad LT 2016
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Message 26 of 34
Charles_Shade
in reply to: AcadAdamLT

Amen brother.

I'd Kudo that if I could.

Message 27 of 34

#firstworldproblems lol...


Melanie Stone
Facilities Data Management
IWMS / CAFM / CMMS / AutoCAD / Archibus / Tririga / Planon / MRI Manhattan CenterStone / Revit / data normalization, data mapping, reporting and process documentation
mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/
Message 28 of 34
ScottHodges
in reply to: pendean

To reduce screen real estate I only have displayed the toolbars I use all the time, with a couple of modifications. I have most of the other toolbars reduced to flyouts. For example, I have one button that displays chamfer by default, but flysout to various fillet options as well. I have the ribbon on, but minimised down to just the pallet titles. I utilise 20+ pull down menus, many of these cascading to various options. Basically, if I don't use it at least every couple of days, it does not show on the screen. I also have the command window on the bottom right of the screen 5 lines high, half screen width, with tollbars to the left of it at the bottom. I also run toolbars with control wondows along the top and bottom of the screen and those without vertically along the left. I have hidden the zoom slider bars, as I find them more of an annoyance than actually useful. I see uses for the ribbon, but do the buttons really need to be 3x the size of a standard toolbar one. Another hint is to maximise screen resolution to something that is still easy to read, preferably with a minimal colour count: I really don't need to try and differentiate between 16 million colours on my AutoCAD screen. I actually use a 22" LCD screen for my AutoCAD and other main programs, and an old 17" CRT for the main windows screen, with the properties pallete and layer manager.

Scott Hodges

Message 29 of 34

Merry Christmas to you all.

 

I finally setled for a AMD Firepro V900 card and 3 samsung 27"monitors and a samsung 21".  I haven't touched menus or CUi just run ootb.  plenty of space to spread out every thing with Map3D.  I put mutiple window explorer in several windows on the small monitor or use it to display from the tablet.  Can run two occasions of Map on two different monitors which makes c & p between maps easy.or comparisons.  I chose the card because it handles the aerial photos well.  I like samsung resolution and colors.  Bought them when I could find them on sale as low as possible prices.

 

My favorite screen is the Algiz 10X tablet with Widows 7 Ultimate.  I run that other mapping GIS program on that in the forest because it accepts GPS input.  10" full color aerial photo and know just where I am in the trees.  Maybe someday autodesk will get GPS onto Map3D?

 

Dave

Message 30 of 34
TRLitsey
in reply to: pendean

This is being driven by a laptop.  Use the the laptop screen for spreadsheets, BOMs, etc.

 

Ribbon docked on the right.  Project Manager and Properties docked on the left.  Custom AutoCAD tool bars across the top.  Rock & Roll baby.

 

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Please mark as a solution if this works for you, kudos are always welcome
Message 31 of 34
Backnblack
in reply to: pendean

Twin 27" ASUS Widescreens here

Message 32 of 34

Nice!

I'm changing jobs, and just getting my new workstation set up... my laptop is a 15" and my secondary monitor is a 27" Acer. It's purty. Way easier to look at things than on these 20"s I've got at the moment. ❤️


Melanie Stone
Facilities Data Management
IWMS / CAFM / CMMS / AutoCAD / Archibus / Tririga / Planon / MRI Manhattan CenterStone / Revit / data normalization, data mapping, reporting and process documentation
mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/
Message 33 of 34
AllenJessup
in reply to: pendean

This is how I do it on dual 20" dell monitors. If I'm doing a lot of 3D. I'll create 2 viewports in modelspace and stretch the drawing window across both monitors.

 

DSCREEN.png



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 34 of 34
darawork
in reply to: Charles_Shade

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I personally use [CTRL]+[0} quite a bit in AutoCad. I learnt via shortcut commands back in the '90s and have never really fallen in love with the toolbars since then. Too much mouse movement in my opinion, it gets tiring constantly mousing to the top of the screen and back to where I was before. With shortcuts the cursor stays reletive to the object I am working on.

 

Here's my current layout, 24" Widescreen and a 17" Side monitor. Doing a lot of 3D and trying to get a start into VR too, thus the Google Cardboard viewer. Spot the homemade 3D glasses too...? Printed out card with Sellotape and red/blue Sharpie marker lenses. 🙂

Darawork
AutoDesk User
Windows 10/11, 3DS Max 2022/24, Revit 2022, AutoCad 2024, Dell Precision 5810/20, ASUS DIY, nVidia Quadro P5000/RTX 5000/GTX760

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