Multiple Screens

[Anonymous]

Good afternoon,

Is there a way to split the screen (ie. vports). and have one view on a monitor, and another on another monitor.

Or does it always have to be in a single window environment?

Cheers

[rl_jackson]

Your stuck there its the window your looking at for now, maybe someday we can do extreme multitasking.

[AllenJessup · Accepted solution]

You can't separate the viewports from the program window but you can;

Split up the vieworts as you like then drag the program window across the two monitors. In the example below I have the viewports created so the split between the large one on the right and the multiple ones on the left occurs right at the interface between the two monitors.

There's no way to tell the program to put a certain viewport on monitor one and others on monitor two. You have to set it up manually. It helps to have the same size for both monitors.

[cwr-pae]

A half A$$'d work a round; Open a second instance of C3D on monitor 2, dref/xref the data to a file open in instance 2, you can at least view it in a separate monitor, saving and synchronizing changes. If you are working on separate C3D object groupings (corridor and pipe network as example), you can edit them in the separate instances. 

[AllenJessup]

Just wanted to add that I can now drag a Tab onto another monitor. I discovered this by accident in 2024. I don't know when it started.

This lets you see two separate drawings at once. Still need to drag the whole window out to see viewports in a second monitor.