Drawing Tabs

[AnneinKZN]

When I open several files, I get tabs along the top showing the file name, and tabs along the bottom showng the drawings in each dwg file.  This is fine.  My problem is that each dwg file has 8 or 9 drawing sheets in it, and if I inadvertently move my mouse over one of the drawing files along the top (difficult to avoid since the ribbon is above these tabs) it frequently opens a drop down list of the drawing tabs (paper space tabs in each drawing) and because most of the files are big and the drawings are full of xrefs, it takes forever to find them and show them.  I need to turn off this option - does anyone know if that is possible? 

I obviously still want the tabs along the bottom which show the different sheets in each drawing, and I also want the tabs along the top showing which drawings I have open, but I do not need a drop down of which sheets are in the different drawings.

Thanks,

Anne Coventry

KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

[pendean]

As long as the tabs are on, your options are limited to (and you can look these up in HELP):
FILETABPREVIEW system variable
FILETABTHUMBHOVER system variable

A restart of the program is often needed for the changes to take full effect.

[AnneinKZN]

Thanks, Pendean - I will try both options and post if either works for what I want them to do.  The thumbover one looks promising, but I've already shut down, so will try them later.

Anne

[David_W_Koch]

@AnneinKZN 

FILETABPREVIEW turns off the display of preview images in the drop-down that occurs when you hover the cursor over a drawing tab when set to 0.

FILETABTHUMBHOVER prevents the drawing canvas from showing the entire contents of a layout if the drawing cursor hovers over one in the drop-down from a drawing tab when set to 0.  (It shows you what you would get if you left-clicked on that layout in the drop-down.)

With Drawing3, Model tab active, hovering the cursor over the Drawing2 tab produces the following results:

With Drawing3, Model tab active, FILETABPREVIEW =0, hovering over one of the layouts on the drop-down produces the following results.  The same would occur if FILETABPREVIEW were set to 1, except you would have the preview images in the drop-down as well.

[JoshSKGE]

I know the original question was solved, but is there any command to do away with the hover feature period? Or at least give the option to delay the hover to 5 seconds? I have some drawings with 25+ layouts and when you have that many layouts, the hover "feature" projects this drop-down up into the toolbar, covering the drawing tab. Often, I will want to close a drawing and when I am about to click the (X) on the drawing tab, this drop-down will pop up and I will end up switching to whatever sheet pops up in the drop-down instead of closing the drawing tab. See how C0.1 is highlighted in the screen shot? My mouse was hovering the (X) getting ready to close the drawing, now when I click, instead of closing that tab, it takes me to the C0.1 layout.

[pendean]

@JoshSKGE no, your long list and AutoCAD's need to show you as much of it as possible is why you see what you see.

Have you all ever considered using SSM to jump between layouts instead of your chosen method? SSM also allows a level of organizing you'll never find in that list-only solution.