Floating window on for drawing tab

[Edgetrimmer]

I tried out the new floating window option in AutoCAD 2022 and I couldn't pull the drawing tab off the bar. I found out you have to set a system variable 'SYSFLOATING' to 1 for it to work.  I pull the window off then onto my 2nd monitor and tried to pull another one.  Same problem.  It seems the system variable is per drawing I have open so I have to set it to 1 for each active drawing I want to drag.  Really?!  Am I missing something here?

-Bruce

[rapidcad]

According to the Express Tools system variables tool, 

Controls the dock state of the drawing file tabs.

Value Description
0 Drawing file tabs are docked
1 Drawing file tabs are floating
-1 Floating drawing file tab feature is disabled

I just tested and this control is reactive - it originally works just fine if you have your original window set to 0, and you test in the drawing that you floated it will read 1. Then if you pull it back into the original window it will read 0 again. The variable only seems to exist to tell developers what environment the window is in at the moment. If your original window is set to 0 you should be able to pull off several drawings and switch between them. You can even work in them but you have no command line - it still works to click into the window and type in commands though.

Does this solve your problem?

[Edgetrimmer]

Thank you for your reply. It doesn't work on my computer. I'm glad it works on yours. It was recommended by another person that I do a "Rest" on my AutoCAD 2022 install. I did that and opened a couple of drawings. I still couldn't drag a drawing tab off the bar without first setting the system variable "SYSFLOATING" to 1. It's a minor nuisance that I hope the Autodesk programmers will track down or else someone will figure out what's different about my install.
-Bruce

[rapidcad]

Hi Bruce. I am running Full AutoCAD (not AutoCAD LT, not Mechanical, not Electrical, not any of the rest) and I did not install until the 2022.0.1 update was released. I just checked the ReadMe for the update but no mention was made regarding SYSFLOATING.  However, they may have snuck something in there that fixed the issue, so check to see if you have installed the update yet. If you have done so AutoCAD will show the product version as 2022.0.1 when you look at the Help>About AutoCAD 2022 pull down menu.

Otherwise the only way I can duplicate your installation's behavior is to set SYSFLOATING to -1, then I can't drag the tabs to open desktop space. If I set SYSFLOATING to 1 it immediately performs a downsize window and shows the drawing in the same place on screen but with the drawing name and path in the downsized window instead of in the AutoCAD window, and it is sitting right in place where my other drawing is open in the full AutoCAD window. If I click into the floating window and change SYSFLOATING to 0, it immediately nests back into the full AutoCAD window right alongside the other drawing tabs.

The only other thing that comes to mind would be related to docking stations if you use a laptop and extra monitors. The driver updates on many docking stations cause some unexpected behavior with various applications.

So check the update if you have not loaded it and see if that helps and maybe try this using only one monitor too.

HTH,

[Edgetrimmer]

Thanks for your reply HTH.  I do have the latest update on AutoCAD and I do have the full version of AutoCAD.  Maybe something to do with my monitors. I don't know. I reset AutoCAD also.  Still can't drag windows off without manually setting SYSFLOATING to 1.  Not a big deal I guess.

[pendean]

@Anonymous HTH means Hope That Helps, it's not a signature.

it's time you posted a video of your actions to show us what you see I suspect.

TIA (Thanks In Advance)

[Edgetrimmer]

No thanks Pendean (community legend).