Undocking from external display causes loss of modal dialogs

[tarheel_cnc]

On my windows 10 Lenovo X1, I often connect to a 5K display and disconnect to manufacture on my CNC or move to a different room.  

When I am on my laptop display after having started or used Fusion 360 on my larger display, the modal dialogs in design and manufacture mode are often off screen (they cannot be found).

I would do a video, but all you would see when I extrude or edit sketch or edit a toolpath, etc. is that the modal dialog is not on the screen

My current fix is to save everything, exit Fusion 360, start F360, and re-open my designs.

Is there a way to fix this?  Is there a way to reclaim the modals when they are lost (presumably off to the right of the current more narrow screen)? 

Or maybe a way to force the modal dialog to always be in the tree view where Browser is?  

Thanks,

Mark

[piotr.kornafel]

Hello @tarheel_cnc 
At first, you can look at this article: Parameter or other dialog is missing in Fusion 360

If this doesn't help you let me know and I will try to find some other solution for your issue.

[tarheel_cnc]

The proposed solution does not work for most f360 dialogs.  I have used the proposed technique with windows from other programs and actually tried it several times on the subject dialogs before posting.  Thank you for offering it as a suggestion to try.

Change parameters is an actual first class windows 10 window with a title bar "Parameters" across the top, so it is a different dialog than the ones I am describing (alt-spacebar brings up restore/move/size/minimize/maximize) context menu.

Edit sketch and other dialogs lack the windows 10 window context options / move option.  If I try the suggested key sequence when editing a sketch where the sketch dialog is lost, for example, the f360 move object dialog appears in response to pressing the M key.

Only Fusion 360 knows about this dialog, so I think that fusion 360 needs to register for some OS monitor/display change notifications and act accordingly (or it needs to poll every once in a while for monitor/display dimension changes / perhaps when rendering a modal dialog)

[piotr.kornafel]

Hello @tarheel_cnc 
I will look around for some solution for you, I hope that I find something.

For now, you can look at this forum topic about a similar issue:

Browser window and toolbar automatically move to the middle of the screen

What's more, you can describe your issue here as an improvement request:

New Ideas for Fusion’s Dialog

If I find something that can help you I will let you know if not we need to post this to Fusion 360 Feedback Hub and wait for an update.

[tarheel_cnc · Accepted solution]

Reset to default layout appears to solve the problem and I pretty much use the default layout, so I will go with that for now.  It would be nice if this was fixed in the future for other users.

File -> View -> Reset to Default Layout (Ctrl-Alt-R on windows)