topic Re: Multiple Windows in AutoCAD Forum

Multiple Windows

JohnC_ISM — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:10:29 GMT

im searching and im finding the opposite issues or specifically the views of a drawing but thats not what im looking for

so far this hasnt been an issue until randomly this week i havent changed anything and yet somehow my open windows layout has changed. i want it to open multiple windows on the taskbar. not tabs or internal windows where i have to minimize inside of autocad i want to be able to switch by clicking the other window similar to the two windows shown in the attached picture.

i never changed any setting yet it somehow changed. see the image attached what i dont want

Re: Multiple Windows

pendean — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:31:33 GMT

@JohnC_ISM right-click on the Windows Taskbar, select Taskbar Settings and explore... https://geekflare.com/customize-windows-11-taskbar/

Re: Multiple Windows

JohnC_ISM — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:07:16 GMT

no i know how that works and in this example you can see that it already creates its own separate windows.

Re: Multiple Windows

paullimapa — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:35:26 GMT

Sounds like you don’t want to open more than a single dwg in an AutoCAD session

With only 1 dwg opened see if command SDI returns 0. If it does change it to 1.

Re: Multiple Windows

JohnC_ISM — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:37:35 GMT

well that seemed to work. ive never even seen that option so im not sure how it changed at all.

Re: Multiple Windows

paullimapa — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:41:27 GMT

Perhaps you might have ran a plugin that turned that option off and didn’t turn it back on? But glad to have helped….cheers!!!

Re: Multiple Windows

JohnC_ISM — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:56:49 GMT

now it went back to what it was doing and SDI is set to 0 already. it looks like it switched to tab mode up at the top. i know FILETABCLOSE but then it puts me right back where i started with two windows and one autocad thing in the windows taskbar

Re: Multiple Windows

JohnC_ISM — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:05:55 GMT

heres what i mean.

- i dont want tabs

- i dont want drawing 1 to open just the drawing i click

- and if i open two i want two autocad things at the bottom

whatever helps. thanks

Re: Multiple Windows

paullimapa — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:45:50 GMT

No you forgot. SDI needs to be set to 1 for what you want so AutoCAD only opens 1 dwg and no more. Something must be turning this setting back to 0 which you don't want. Time to investigate what might be doing this.

Re: Multiple Windows

JohnC_ISM — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:14:56 GMT

Okay that fixed that I accidently forgot I had a thing in the lisp to set it to 0 from last time I was messing with it.
Now how do I get it to stop opening up drawing 1 and the drawing I click on? startup is set to 0.

Re: Multiple Windows

paullimapa — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:46:52 GMT

Set STARTUP to 2

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-open-AutoCAD-without-opening-Drawing1.html

Re: Multiple Windows

JohnC_ISM — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 19:59:59 GMT

Ive tried all start ups and they all open drawing one separately. I have no idea how or why this happens.

Re: Multiple Windows

paullimapa — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:11:39 GMT

that's odd...both in 2023 & 2024 once I set SDI to 1 and STARTUP to 2 and I launch AutoCAD from the shorcut the program opens without loading a drawing like this:

Re: Multiple Windows

JohnC_ISM — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 16:22:59 GMT

Its something with my setup. Idk whats going on because now after loading a big GIS shape file all my menu bars and palletes reset. I'm guessin this is just my computer because this is so annoying haha