topic How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing? in AutoCAD Forum

How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

keckford — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:25:59 GMT

A new feature of Autocad 2015 is the auto-resizing status bar. I find it's constantly resizing while I'm drafting, causing the screen to flash white and stutter for a fraction of a second. This is constant! Is there a way to disable this Feature?

The problem occurs when the Drawing Coordinates panel (to the left of the Model/Layout tabs on the status bar) gets too big (see image attached), and needs more space. It auto-expands the status bar to take up two rows. When the coordinate text gets small enough, it auto-resizes down. Flashing screen, stutter and all.

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:47:14 GMT

If you right click on any one of the layout tabs you will see an option for "dock above status bar". Select that and it should leave it permanently in the upper position. You can also make sure you have "Lock UI" checked in the pop up menu from the bottom right corner.

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:56:26 GMT

Hi,

I have (had) the same issue, the only chance I see is to hide the coordinates from the status bar.

That happens when the number of decimal places changes, then the coordinate box get's wider or smaller ... and that sometimes (when to wide) moves that frame one line up and when less decimal places are shown the coordinate frame get's pushed back.

Look to the screenshot to see how to turn the coordinate display off.

- alfred -

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:36:37 GMT

hello to all, I use Civil 3D 2017, have same issue. I have tried all of the options above. have my command line floating, however, still have status bar jumping back and forth. is anyone can help with this? thanks, SC

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:51:05 GMT

Hi,

>> I have tried all of the options above

Really? When hiding the coordinates from the statusbar it is solved as that is the only field which can grow and shrink (continuously).
It might also be helpful to set the modelspace-/layout-tabs one line higher (right click on one of the tabs to get the option), but hiding the coordinates is the only solution I can see.

- alfred -

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:38:07 GMT

you are correct. all of the above options works, however, only to keep the status bar " above", I would like to keep it " in line". I keep in line for a while, than system goes jumping back and forth from one option to another. So, I have to dock above status bar, to avoid jumping. Following you second advice. I don't see any option to change the model/layout line higher in right click in my program. Thank you for your help though! 🙂 SC

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 18:53:02 GMT

Hi,

>> than system goes jumping back and forth from one option to another

Hide the coordinates ...

Hide them and you won't see the lines jumping any more

>> I don't see any option to change the model/layout line higher in right click in my program

That's what I get when right-clicking the current tab ...

- alfred -

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:05:41 GMT

perhaps, I did explain myself properly, trying one more time 🙂 I have done all those options. because non of the options did really worked for me, I have asked for a help. Maybe someone knows how to keep the " inline with status bar", instead of " dock above status bar", and coordinate system was turned off with other unnecessary icons from customization menu. Thank you, SC

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

dtiemeyer — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:05:48 GMT

I have a user experiencing the same issue, even with coordinates turned off and command line floating, the auto-resizing status bar flakes-out for no reason. Did anybody find a way to permanently fix this?

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2017 15:23:20 GMT

it keeps resizing anyway.... what then? i have coordinates turned off.

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

pendean — Tue, 30 May 2017 15:35:08 GMT

Do you mean this https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Model-and-layout-tabs-move-up-and-down-in-AutoCAD.html

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:12:32 GMT

Better solution.
Thanks.

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Topmig — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:44:57 GMT

Hi,

For me the best solution was found in:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/dock-inline-with-status-bar-funky-behavior/td-p/5602990

Change the variable STATUSBARAUTOWRAP to OFF.

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

hencoop — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:48:52 GMT

I just had this problem. I started using a new 4K 32" monitor so naturally it was suspect. I had started with standard size text which is pretty small even with this large screen. I used the monitor's app for resizing all text by 125% and things looked about right; however, this introduced the automatic resizing of the status bar which causes the screen to reposition itself. I could not select grips because they kept moving. It appears that the problem does have something to do with the coordinates but only as it relates to the attempted resize of their text. The coordinate text did not actually resize on my system but apparently it tries to and that is why the bar constantly resizes. I reset my monitor software back to using 100% text size and the status bar resizing stopped... I had coordinates displayed the whole time. It may be that system adjustments to text size (outside of AutoCAD) are the actual culprit.

Autodesk? can you chack to see if this is a problem with your product?

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 06:21:05 GMT

Hi,

there is a system variable, that might help: STATUSBARAUTOWRAP

Does that help`?

- alfred -

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

bugajski81 — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:06:13 GMT

Thanks, it fixed mine

Change the variable STATUSBARAUTOWRAP to OFF.

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:55:56 GMT

You can use the Lock UI button in the Customization menu in the very bottom right corner.

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

hencoop — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:47:41 GMT

That will lock things from user actions but it is ignored by AutoCAD's own random resizing of things, e.g. the SSM, The Properties Window, etc.

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

aaron.isberg — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:06:34 GMT

That worked thanks. Pretty frustrating that this is not resolved in the release version. (Disable the coordinates input window using the three line menu list in the bottom right corner of the workspace.)

Re: How to stop Status Bar from auto-resizing?

cadffm — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 05:00:25 GMT

Resolve?

Thats not an issue, thats a designed feature! And it is a cool idea, BUT

The only problem is your small monitor/low resolution

or the mass of enabled statusbar content.

(Yes, stupid - but Adesk thinks it is well implemented)

Disable coordinates?

Thats not the solution, this is a workaround.

Turn STATUSBARAUTOWRAP off

another way

RightClick to layout tab, Statusbar always above...