Screen keeps flickering up and down in AutoCAD Architecture
When docked in-line with the Status Bar, the Model/Layout tabs will automatically shift above when the items on the Status Bar grow too wide to fit with the tabs in-line. To stop this shifting, you can:
- Have fewer Layout tabs in your file.
- Use shorter names on the Layout Tabs.
- Turn off the display of Status Bar tools. Are there any you never really use? The Coordinates tool is one that will dynamically resize as the cursor moves, and may be the driver behind the ever-shifting Model/Layout tab location.
- Set a monitor resolution that allows for more horizontal pixels. (Or, use a different monitor with more horizontal pixels.)
- Use multiple monitors, and stretch the AutoCAD Architecture window across more than one of them, making the window wide enough to accommodate all of the Status Bar tools you have turned on and all of the Model/Layout tabs in one row without causing a shift.
- Permanently dock the Model/Layout tabs above the Status Bar. (This will not eliminate the possibility of a flash, as you may be able to turn on enough Status Bar tools to have the Status Bar itself jump between one row and two rows of tools as the Coordinates tool gets narrower or wider.)
- Turn off the display of the Model/Layout tabs and hover over the drawing tab to choose a specific Model/Layout. (I put this last as it would be my last choice.)
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When docked in-line with the Status Bar, the Model/Layout tabs will automatically shift above when the items on the Status Bar grow too wide to fit with the tabs in-line. To stop this shifting, you can:
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- Have fewer Layout tabs in your file. (Having this issue with only two tabs open: Model, Work.)
- Use shorter names on the Layout Tabs. (Layout tabs are shortly named, max. 5 letters each.)
- Turn off the display of Status Bar tools. (I’m not sure if this is on.) Are there any you never really use? (I removed a lot I don’t use.) The Coordinates tool is one that will dynamically resize as the cursor moves and may be the driver behind the ever-shifting Model/Layout tab location. (Turned off coordinates, I don’t need.)
- Set a monitor resolution that allows for more horizontal pixels. (Or, use a different monitor with more horizontal pixels.) (My pixel resolution is at its highest: 1920x1080.)
Use multiple monitors and stretch the AutoCAD Architecture window across more than one of them, making the window wide enough to accommodate all of the Status Bar tools you have turned on and all of the Model/Layout tabs in one row without causing a shift.(Can’t do.)- Permanently dock the Model/Layout tabs above the Status Bar. (This will not eliminate the possibility of a flash, as you may be able to turn on enough Status Bar tools to have the Status Bar itself jump between one row and two rows of tools as the Coordinates tool gets narrower or wider.) (It looks like I’m going to have to try the: permanently dock the Model/Layout tabs above the Status Bar)
- Turn off the display of the Model/Layout tabs and hover over the drawing tab to choose a specific Model/Layout. (I put this last as it would be my last choice.) (I’d like to give this a try, where would I find this feature?)
- After the adjustments (in Blue) I've added a screenshot of what I still get when zooming in and out, with dock inline with status bar. It still goes up and down. I'll give the permanently dock tabs above the status bar a try. Will still have the blank space above status bar tools and below the type a command bar.
While I know that the Model/Layout tabs will jump up when it appears (to me, anyway) that there is still plenty of room between the tabs and the Status Bar tools, from what you show on your image in your latest post, I would be shocked to hear that if you docked the tabs in line that you still experienced jumping. I do not see any tools that would significantly change in width as you work, and there is a boatload of space between the Model and Work tabs and the leftmost Status Bar tool.
Docking them permanently above will have the blank space above, but at least the screen will not flash while dynamically resizing. If you want, you can move the Command line down over that blank space by holding the CTRL key down as you move the Command line, to prevent it from docking.
If you have Drawing Tabs turned on (use the FILETAB command to turn them on; FILETABCLOSE to turn them off), you can hover your mouse cursor over the tab to get a drop down showing the Model and Layout tabs. You can then move your mouse down over them to get a full-AutoCAD-window preview of the tab under the mouse and you can left click one to make it the active tab.
They gave the ability to put them in-line, but you do not have to keep them there. Move them back above the Status Bar by right clicking on one of the Model/Layout tabs and choose Dock above Status Bar from the context menu. If I had to work with a lot of layouts in one file and/or had all or nearly all of the tools on the Status Bar turned on, that would be what I would do.
