Autocad 2019 maximized window display error

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have consistent problem with proper displaying maximized autocad window.

My laptop is Surface Book 2 15.4 with Graphic card GTX 1060.

Screen resolution set in windows 10 is 3240x2160.

Here is the problem. On maximized window Autocad is not properly adjusted to the screen and looks like it's moved a bit to the left. There is a blank stripe on the right side of the screen and W10 taskbar is not automatically showing up when mouse cursor is on the screen bottom.

The stripe dissapears when I turn on properties window and pin it to the left side but W10 taskbar still not working.

So far I've tried to (without any results):

• switch to my regular graphic Intel 620 but the problem remains
• change w10 resolution
• change scaling in w10
• change DPI properties on acad.exe file 
• go full screen on autocad

Does anyone has an idea how to solve it?

without a stripe on the rightwith a stripe

[imadHabash]

Hi,

if you click on Restore down / Maximize button for AutoCAD ( Not the dwg ) , any changes ?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I've tried. Problem remains.

[pendean]

There is not documented patch or update that specifically addresses what you see from Autodesk.
Is this a trial version? Have you tried R2021?

[nrz13]

The "stripe" you indicated has been a common AutoCAD bug reported many times over many versions for many years.  I don't think I've ever seen a real solution to fix it.  In the past, I was able to fix it by locating my Properties palette on my second monitor a few pixels away from the maximized program edge on the first monitor.  If you only have one monitor, that won't work.

The hidden taskbar is a problem I've seen a number of times in the past and probably still encounter from time to time.  The workaround solution for that is to press the Window key on your keyboard (hopefully you have one); that will pull up the taskbar and then you can click on a blank area of the taskbar to bring it in focus.  Then, at least for me, it stays on top for a while until the next time it happens.  I believe this is a Windows issue, as I've had the same thing happen with other maximized programs.

Here's an old post I had with the same issues.  The problems went away for me with a Windows update.  But I've seen other posts before mine with similar issues as well.
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-window-not-opening-completely-maximized/m-p/783...

[Anonymous]

Ok. Thanks for advice. 

I've been using Autocad since version 12 (1996) on different computers and with the same system autocad acts in a different way on different pc's.

Some versions were better than others but this happened for the first time. Probably the problem is in the very high screen resolution and some w10 updates combined with a known autocad bug.

Finally I can live with that, but software for some 2k $ for annual subscrition should work perfectly on any PC.

Best regards

[nrz13]

@Anonymous 
For what it's worth, I've never had or used a high resolution screen (where you get double pixel count to represent traditional resolution areas), and these problems have been around long before high resolution screens hit the scene.

The maximize bug is almost certainly on Autodesk.  I've never seen any other program with that issue before and it affects multiple versions of the program on different computers with different graphics cards.  I think the taskbar issue is on Microsoft.

[JBerns]

We had a few workstations here that experienced a problem with the AutoCAD maximized window state.

In our case, AutoCAD was opening "in front of" or "covering" the Windows Taskbar.

After some research on another forum thread, I wrote some code to call the "minimize/maximize" utility. It happens so fast, it just appears as part of the normal AutoCAD startup. The code has resolved our display issue.

Here is the code:

;;; Utility to maximize the AutoCAD window
;;; Source: https://www.cadtutor.net/forum/topic/64219-sstartup-help-required/?tab=comments#comment-529211
;;; Author: Grr

;;; load visual lisp
(vl-load-com)

;;; Maximizes/docks the autocad window at startup
;;; I have this issue when opening drawings when autocad is not running
(defun C:Maximize_AutoCAD_Window ( / app )
  (setq app (vlax-get-acad-object)) 
  (mapcar (function (lambda (x) (vla-put-WindowState app x))) (list acMin acMax))
  (princ)
);_ defun C:Maximize_AutoCAD_Window


;;; run after autocad starts and first drawing is open
(defun s::startup ()
  (C:Maximize_AutoCAD_Window)
  (princ)
) ;end s::startup

(princ)

Our users saved this code as ACAD.LSP and added it to the folder in the Support and Trusted file paths (OPTIONS command). Since it is ACAD.LSP, it only loads with the first drawing. The S::STARTUP function ensures that it runs with the first opened drawing.

I hope this is helpful. I welcome your feedback.

Regards,

Jerry