We've been using AutoCAD 2020 for a few years, and we're finally working on changing over to 2023. I'm the guinea pig. Just about everything is working correctly. The one issue I keep coming across are the palettes. Personally, I like the blocks palette on the left of the screen, and the right would have the tool palettes with the tools we came up with, the properties palette, and the xref palette. Everything works fine, until the next day. Some days when I first open AutoCAD, everything is in the right place. Most of the time what happens is the blocks palette ends up on the right and won't auto-hide. When this happens, it's quite often that I can't get any other palette to open at all, maybe 80% of the time nothing opens, and 20% I get lucky and can move things around. When I type in PROPERTIES, XREF, or TOOLPALETTES, nothing happens for that 80%.
After checking things out in the CUI, I don't see anything that would make the palettes not show. Under appearance, "Show" is set to yes, "Orientation" has been changed to left, right, or floating, "Allow Docking" has been set to yes or no, and "Auto Hide" has been set to on or off. I've gone through a lot of different combinations of these settings (not all, I got bored of trying them all), and nothing makes the palettes show. The size is correct too, the smallest width is over 300 pixels so it's not hidden behind anything. And they aren't on another monitor, they just don't show up at all.
The only way I've found that gets the palettes to show is to restart AutoCAD. Even then, sometimes the blocks palette is on the right, but I can get it to move where I want it and everything is fine. I have a custom workspace set up, but if I switch over to another one (say, Drafting & Annotation Default), that doesn't fix anything.
I thought it might be a network thing since the tool palette with our custom tools is stored there and AutoCAD points to that location for everyone. The palettes work fine in AutoCAD 2020. I made a new folder for the 2023 palette since a few LISPs in there needed to have some minor changes to work on 2023. These folders sit right next to each other. This has never been a problem in 2020, only since installing 2023 and in 2023. Plus, the usual xref and properties palettes don't work, and the blocks palette position doesn't stay.
How can I get the palette locations to stay where I want them, and why aren't some opening until I restart AutoCAD?
