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Dual Monitor support for Revit

Integrate dual monitor compactibility within revit. No offense, but dragging the bottom of the programm border across both monitors isn't ideal.

 

Revit LT 2016

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Participant
Participant
I would like this implemented by allowing drawing windows to be torn from the main application window and placed on a second monitor.
Participant
Participant
I should probably note I want this because my home office setup includes a 4K monitor on the left and a 1080p monitor on the right. It's almost impossible to span a single session across both monitors because of the resolution difference between the monitors. To do so, I'm either forced to set the 4K monitor to 1080p resolution, or line the bottom of the window up with the bottom of the 1080p screen. Doing the second leave a bunch of unused real estate at the bottom of the 4K screen.
Advocate
Advocate

The way I envisage it so that you don't have every new view/sheet open in a new window floating around would be to either right click to open a view in it's own window or to have an on/off toggle for opening views in seperate windows.

Contributor
Contributor
I i also suggested this topic on the forum yesterday. The way i likte to see it is explained below.  
 
 
Re: Dual Monitor support for Revit
 
19-05-2016 10:46 AM in reply to: Lance.Coffey

 

The way I see it, i would like to set the 3D view (maybe two 3D views on the first monitor), and floorplans on my second monitor. This for an overall look of my project to view the effects of changes I made to the project floor plans. But this can work with anyway you want to overview your project. Like elevations on monitor 1 and sections on monitor 2 or whatever you are using. 

 

Swapping the properties box to the second monitor while working on the first monitor is not working well, because you have to swap your mouse to the second screen constantly to adjust something. It's more the way to have a quick look like i mentioned above.

 

I already uploaded this as an Idea a few days ago @ http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/dual-monitor-support-for-revit/idi-p/6326115

 

I just wanted to address this over here as well. 

 

 
Anonymous

I would really like to have 2 separate views ie Plan and 3D open and have the ability to have them on separate monitirs.

Mentor
Mentor

The basic idea "Dual Monitor support for Revit" is already here.

Explorer
Explorer

I am not sure this is the spot to write this, but it might help to some extend until the second screen functionality is integrated into Revit.

 

I heard customers say that Enscape can be used on the second screen for the visualization, similar to what you described. It only gives you the visualization and not the settings but it might be a start. 

Anonymous

Missed this one - I sent up a post with a few interface improvements including multi-monitor, apologies for the dual post.  Feel free to vote mine up, too, perhaps multiple similar ideas will get more attention?

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/interface-profile-manager-feature-finder-multi-monitor/idi...

 

Autodesk
Autodesk
El estado se ha cambiado a: Under Review

Thanks for your submission and votes on this idea!  We are evaluating where this request falls into our roadmap and will provide an update when we have made a decision.

 

The Factory

Anonymous

I've already suggested this elsewhere but I might as well reiterate here. This is pretty easy to implement. All that needs to happen is Revit must ditch the silly MDI display model in favour of a multiple window one. Once this change is made then any window can be placed on any monitor without any problems.

Participant
Participant

As spoker for german-user :

 

Bitte auch an die Triple-Monitor-User denken, bislang über 2 Instanzen versucht das Problem zu kompensieren, äusserst lästig, kann doch wirklich nicht die große Sache sein.

 

 

Community Manager
Community Manager
El estado se ha cambiado a: Accepted

Congrats! We think this is a great idea, so we've decided to add it to our roadmap. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

The Factory

Advocate
Advocate

Hooray!

Participant
Participant

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind...REVIT now reached the hall of fame...Thanks a lot

Anonymous

Along with dual monitors, window/menu layout profiles would be especially handy:

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/interface-window-profiles-and-manager/idi-p/6509320

Collaborator
Collaborator

Trimble Business Center has the best floating view options i 've ever seen.

I like to see revit work like that.

Watch the attached video.

Anonymous

Trimble's menus are nice, but it's also exactly how ArchiCAD works on a Mac.  Autodesk is quite a bit behind on this one.

Collaborator
Collaborator
But archicad still cannot display dynamically an operation in two views. If you draw eg a wall in a 2d view when you move the mouse you don't see anything in 3d view. You only see when you click the endpoint
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

It would be much easier to work with two, or more, displays if editing windows could be dragged outside of Revit's parent window.

 

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Anonymous

Add hotkeys for this when you implement it.  Something like what windows does would be fine.  windows key-right to the right, windows key left to the left, etc.    

Advocate
Advocate

I would love to be able to drag a 3d view unto my second screen. Thats one of the features Im missing most in Revit

Consultant
Consultant

Just to be clear - are you asking about being able to drag the 3D view window outside of the application window, so that the application window doesn't have to be stretched across the second monitor?

Advocate
Advocate

Yes, streching does not work very well, especially when you don't have two identical monitors. The properties window can be moved outside the application. I would like the same for views (3d views, sections floorplans schedules etc.)

Advisor
Advisor
Explorer
Explorer

It would be great if you could have a live 3D view in a separate pop out window so that it can be moved around independently of the Revit window. I find having the 3D view open in a window tile situation very awkward to use.
Currently Revit supports the ability to pop out the properties palette and project browser and this is extremely useful, especially when using Revit on dual monitors.

Anonymous

Excellent idea, a 3d view that works like a pallete. This would certainly free up screen space, especially considering most people in the industry work with a second screen setup. No need to constantly press WT all the time to get back to a 3D View!

Community Visitor
Community Visitor

Great idea, would be very useful

Advisor
Advisor

Why limit it to a 3D View?

ANY View shoul dbe able to be pulled off to a second screen.

 

BTW, I believe this kind of thing is what they are talking about  (multi-monitor support) in the Revit Road Map

Anonymous
100% agree with this.
Collaborator
Collaborator

Excelent Ideia

Anonymous

Allow better multi screen support to maximise to each screen.

Advocate
Advocate
Anonymous
Explorer
Explorer

Excellent idea and something that definitely needs to be implemented fast. I think that it would be good if views/windows could be controlled in the same way that you can control the project browser and properties pallets in the sense that they can either be snapped into the main Revit window or they can be popped out and moved around your monitors independently of the main Revit window.

Explorer
Explorer
try using Enscape. Does that work for you?
Anonymous
Here here! If you could have separate windows like Photoshop, you could
use then to snap to full screen or tile them or whatever with the built in
windows 7 window tab commands (e.g. windows-up, windows-up, etc.). I'd
rather not have Revit reinvent the wheel for window management if
possible. Of course any UI improvement in this area would be welcome. All
we have now is W-T for tile all windows.

Being able to support different monitor sizes would be great. I'd suggest
even going further and redesigning the properties and system browser and
other elements so you can put all that on say a 20" 1080p monitor on the
bottom right of a 30-40 inch higher resolution display for showing the
model.
Anonymous

It would be fantastic if users are able to move viewports (windows) outside of Revit without having to stretch Revit across two-three screens with different resolutions. Also be able to drag details to those windows that are outside of Revit and so on. 

 

Thank you,

 

Govinda Hooper - Microdesk 

Advisor
Advisor

Please doublecheck for posting. This is a duplicate to the second highest voted idea: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/dual-monitor-support-for-revit/idi-p/6326115

Anonymous

The opening post and many of the subsequent comments are very positive.  
As an interesting precedent, Cinema 4D has had the most impressive interface controls I have ever used.

I think a smart way in which Revit could facilitate multi-screen support, would be to allow Revit to launch additional master windows with or without toolbars allocated.  These could then easily be full screen / half screen'd via Windows pane control systems.

Then within each of these master windows being able to dock in tools bars and views just as Revit currently supports these actions would first of all be a brilliant start.

To follow, if some further window tiling tools were available to force tile Revit panes by 2x3, 2x2 etc that would be even better.  It might be tricky to manage how Revit would tile say the first 4 or 6  of the open active windows, but if the switch window shortcut was allocated onto each views' title bar next to the min/max/close buttons, this would allow you then to switch in and out views as you require.

Anonymous
This is going to spark an "us vs them" war but what the hell :cara_guiñando_un_ojo:

For the record, if there is a record, I am strongly against any sort of
"master window" interface where other windows are restricted to the
confines of the master window. This is a very outdated UI that I don't
believe is any longer suitable for today's work practices.

I am a vehement proponent of an application being able to open as many
windows as the user requires to get their job done and I should be able to
place each one of those windows anywhere I please on my multiple screens.
Also, the application should provide docking and snapping feature so that
windows can be grouped (docked together) and snapped to screen edges. Once
I arrange my "workspace" I should be able to save this layout for future
sessions.

cheers,
-tomek
Community Manager
Community Manager

@Anonymous, @Anonymous, before you start an us vs them war here - are you part of Revit Preview?

Anonymous
Nope. How do I get on that train?

cheers,
-tomek

p.s.

I was kidding about starting a war. There are plenty already in the world.
Community Manager
Community Manager

My previous comment is missing a smiley. Here it is: Emoticono muy feliz

 

To get access to Revit preview, send a request to revit.preview.access@autodesk.com

Anonymous
Nice one. Thanks for that. I feel like I'm at the stage where I'll be able
to focus my ideas and comments better if I have access to previews.

cheers,
-tomek
Anonymous
Hi Tomek,

Apologies if I inadvertently riled you up there. I'm think I'm much in
agreement.

To clarify, I was suggesting that if Revit were able to launch additional
master windows, this would allow secondary, tertiary, windows to be made
full screen within the windows interface, at whatever resolution those
additional screens may be.

Within these panes Autodesk would be able to manage tiling within them,
where as if they all float around within the windows interface, this would
be an issue with the Windows UI and their window pane management?
(apologies for making up the terminology here, I'll try and have a swot up
to use the correct language in future!)
Anonymous
It's all good, just having a bit of a joke. Anyway, if you have used
recently any of Adobe's Creative Suite products or Sketchup or... (I'm a
Mac user mostly so I don't know that many Windows apps) you will know what
I'm talking about. The application provides one main window. This is the
"canvas" or "main view". Some applications allow you to have multiple views
of the same "space". Then you have a number of "tool palettes" that can be
organised together into larger groups that can be move at the same time and
snapped to the edges of other palettes, windows and the screen itself.

This thread is actually exposing a larger problem with the current UI used
in Revit: the UI no longer supports us in our work as our projects are
simply too big and complicated. With hundreds of sheets, dozens of views
open at the same time the primitive Properties and Project Browsers are
simply inadequate.

I've been meaning to prepare some mockups of what I think would work really
well but as always times is short. Perhaps next time I'm on sick leave I'll
be able to get something done :cara_guiñando_un_ojo:

cheers,
-tomek
Anonymous

Cant see how to vote this up but this needs implementing ASAP.  

Anonymous

Now its on their roadmap when can we expect it to be instigated?

Participant
Participant
King AUTODESK will not answer to you, I wait since a year
Anonymous
I want to believe that Autodesk set out the Revit development roadmap based
on priorities they get from user feedback but
sarcasm is not going to make them work faster. We're all professionals here
and as such we understand the pressures of continuing development of a
sophisticated and complex system. Demanding that something be done because
we want it now won't make it happen. It will happen when it does. Hopefully
soon because I need this too :cara_guiñando_un_ojo:

Anonymous
I wasn't being sarcastic, I genuinely want to know if there is a time table for this feature.
Anonymous
I wasn't being sarcastic, I genuinely want to know if there is a time table for this feature.
Community Manager
Community Manager

@Anonymous, unfortunately due to US accounting regulations we are not able to share delivery timelines. 

 

That said, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, I encourage people to join the Revit Preview project so that you can get a glimpse into what's under development at the Factory under a non-disclosure agreement.

Anonymous

I think the user experience must be similar to Adobe Photoshop, when you can simply drag any toolbars/panels as well as any views to the second/multi monitors and it should feel native.

Anonymous

It is already over 12 years we are asking for multiple screen support. It is time to re-vamp the engine.

Anonymous
What about letting us use multiple monitors :cara_que_ríe_con_la_boca_abierta_y_los_ojos_sonrientes: I would very much like to be able to have a window of the 3d model open on my secondary screen while working in a plan drawing on my primary screen.
Anonymous

This idea has already been accepted into the future roadmap.

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/dual-monitor-support-for-revit/idi-p/6326115

Anonymous

This has been discussed so much already. I appreciate that you may be new to Revit and are only just beginning to contribute to this forum (well done you!) but please next time search the forum before posting and then simply vote on the existing idea. Also feel free to add your own comments. Otherwise we just end up with so many duplicates of the same idea. This is hard to manage and no doubt a little frustrating for the board ops.

Anonymous
Hey sorry I'm new to the forum. I'll do that next time ☺️
Anonymous
All good. Welcome to the forum (even though I probably didn't sound very
welcoming at all). I know what it's like to be really enthusiastic and full
of ideas and to finally find a place where you can speak to like minded
people only to discover that there were literally hundreds of similar
requests and ideas even before you joined in. Don't let that discourage you
from positing interesting ideas. We're all here to make Revit better.

cheers,
-tomek
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Yes, but could we please have a parameter that assigns categories to screens -i.e. default screen one, 3D views screen two, schedules etc. screen three.

Anonymous

Dual monitorsetup for Revit should be more flexible.

Collaborator
Collaborator

This is already on the Road Map and I've already seen many posts related to dual-monitor support within the Ideas pages.

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-roadmaps/the-first-ever-public-revit-roadmap/ba-p/6633199

 

It's a waiting game now until Autodesk decides when to release to the general public.

Advisor
Advisor

Major releases typically happen in the spring

this improve should be think not only as dual monitors, my specific arrangement at home is for 3 monitors, and once i worked in a studio that use in their meeting rooms 5 screens, sometimes they were use as duplicated screen and sometimes as independent screen, this improvement can apply for for all naviswork versions...

 

and for all autodesk software!!!...

Participant
Participant
The dark days of single-monitor-cadworking never end- Have a strong look on the post of "08-16-2016 01:46 PM" - My solution was a 32 Monitor
Autodesk
Autodesk
El estado se ha cambiado a: Implemented

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm pleased to say that we think we have knocked this idea out by implementing new tabbed views and the ability to drag a few out of the Revit frame and on to any number of monitors in Revit 2019.  We are marking this as implemented!  If you have other needs requests based on the new functionality, please submit additional Revit ideas so that we can get your feedback.  

 

The Factory

Participant
Participant
“The Force will be with you. Always.” — Obi-Wan Kenobi
Anonymous

Genius! As far as I'm concerned 2019 is the most monumental release for designers. Thank you so much for working hard on delivering these features. We can't wait to see what other great features will get implemented next.

 

cheers,

-tomek

Autodesk
Autodesk
El estado se ha cambiado a: Gathering Support
 
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

So I use three monitors, one is very high res, one is just for 3D, so when I boot up Revit I have to drag the 3D to another screen and then resize.  Would it be possible to save this setup on shutdown?

Autodesk
Autodesk
El estado se ha cambiado a: Implemented