I prefer to work from toolbars on the right side and bottom of the screen. I'm finding the icon size to be much too small and it's slowing up my work because I can't discern one from the other -- and yes, I am wearing my glasses. Is there anything I can do to increase the size?
The aspect Ratio of your Windows environment can be a solution as well.
Though this will also affect every other program you have.
Regards, Charles Shade
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That only makes SOME icons bigger, but not the tool bars. The Command line text gets so large you can't read what it says. If you do something like, "Modify Properties" the text is so big that the lines are all stacked on top of each other.
This is NOT the solution.
HI @Anonymous
Were you able try any of the suggestions? Did they not work for you as well?
Please post back should you have any other questions. Happy to help.
Thanks.
Hi @JanneZack,
I understand your frustration. If you'd like I can log your experience as defect with our development team.
I will need some additional information to add to your case.
I'd be happy to assist you with this as well. Let me know how you'd like to proceed.
Hi @Anonymous,
It's a problem that I'm aware of because I see it often enough in the forums. It is a an issue that is being worked on. But as for myself I don't have any control of changing code or the product but am willing to help in anyway I can.
I was once a drafter like yourself and when I say I understand your frustration, the feelings of irritation are not lost on me.
I will do some digging and see what I can find for you on other possible workarounds. As of now the best that I can do for you is to log your feedback and issue with our development team. If you'd like we can go ahead and escalate this case to attach it to an existing defect number.
Should this issue be addressed in a service pack sooner rather than later I will do my best to create a proactive post for you and the rest of the other user's in this community.
Have a great weekend.
If you use AutoCAD/LT2017 then Go grab the 2017.1 update (see the "point one" in the name) from your active subscription-only updates page https://manage.autodesk.com/cep/#products-services/updates
Read about it here Read about it here: http://blogs.autodesk.com/autocad/autocad-2017-fall-update/
Otherwise AutoCAD 2016 and lower were not designed for high-res monitors. It only runs on displays set to 1920x1080 (also try 2560x1440 and up to 2560x1600 if you have that option) and at 100% text scaling (no more than 125% text scaling). It will not look good on 4k displays settings on modern PCs and laptops 😞
Read all about it here http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Odd-gra...
Your not alone and I have the same problem. I solved one problem of 1/3 my screen not showing the drawing by turning off graphics acceleration by using GRAPHICSCONFIG. Now my screen looks normal and all up to speed except the toolbars that I open, such as OBJECT_SNAP, and dock on the side of my screen. These toolbars speed up my work greatly and I feel frustrated learning to use another method of accomplishing my tasks. All toolbars on top are OK but these toolbars that "Float" are so small they are hardly usable. Changing settings in windows does nothing but make all my other engineering programs look and run different.
This must be an industry wide issue and is probably costing the community millions of dollars of lost man hours. It will be a shame to go back to my slower machine just to get work done faster and then change to the new machine to do my 3D Rhino renderings with the high resolution screen that is standard on most all laptops today.
M Dockter
Marine Design and Naval Architects
Yes I am a Subscription user and am running 2017 and have ran the 2017.1 update. It seemed to fix it once but after a restart it is back to same problem. I do appreciate all your suggestions and have tried them all. Some helped and some did not.
Thanks for all your input.
M. Dockter
You might need to log into your subscription portal and start a support ticket: it;s not going to get noticed much in this forum
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