topic Re: Side by side drawing view without start tab in AutoCAD LT Forum

Side by side drawing view without start tab

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:48:09 GMT

AutoCAD 2022 LT.

How do i open the drawing side by side view without the Start tab also showing.

When i have 2 drawings/windows open the last thing i want is the Start tab taking a 1/3 of the space.

Best regards,

Re: Side by side drawing view without start tab

h_s_walker — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:58:22 GMT

At the command line type STARTMODE. Change the value to 0. You will need to restart AutoCAD. To get it back change the value back to 1

Re: Side by side drawing view without start tab

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 07:41:28 GMT

Hi hwalker,

Thanks for the reply. I should have said I tried playing with that option.

Changing the value to 0 in STARTMODE gets rid of the Start tab completely, which isn't what I was after.

To be fair the Start tab can be quite useful but it's totally useless when viewing different drawings side-by-side and takes too much screen space up.

AutoCad LT won't let me close (X) the Start tab window but it will let me minimize it so I guess that is my best option?

Best regards.

Re: Side by side drawing view without start tab

h_s_walker — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 08:25:42 GMT

Yeah short of not having a start tab that is your best option

Re: Side by side drawing view without start tab

steven-g — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:33:18 GMT

In the tile view minimize the start tab and then click tile view again in the ribbon

Re: Side by side drawing view without start tab

steven-g — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 15:59:18 GMT

Did you try minimizing the start tab? And restarting the tile option?

Re: Side by side drawing view without start tab

hillbgt1 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:42:54 GMT

Use the floating drawing windows that are new in the 2022 version.