What do Dual Monitors Look Like?

[Anonymous]

Were about to upgrade to AC9 from 6.5 and we have a bunch of extra 21" monitors around the office. Assuming we get cards that support dual monitors, we could put two on each workstation.

What would this look like? Is the drawing all on one screen and the palletts all on the other?

Any chance someone could post a right and left screenshot of how archicad lays out with 2 monitors?

Thanks a ton!

Dave

[Anonymous]

2 monitors behave as one. SImple.
Put Plans in one. 3d , sections in other...

[Anonymous]

This would look envious to all single monitor users!

Maxam wrote:
Were about to upgrade to AC9 from 6.5 and we have a bunch of extra 21" monitors around the office. Assuming we get cards that support dual monitors, we could put two on each workstation.

What would this look like? Is the drawing all on one screen and the palletts all on the other?

Any chance someone could post a right and left screenshot of how archicad lays out with 2 monitors?

Thanks a ton!

Dave

[Dwight]

Floor plan on RHS - main - display

All main palettes are crammed against the Rhs of the LHS

I have the tool palettes, including the Cigraph one of the moment free-floating on the floorplan surface.

3D and section views float around on display 2 according to the required proportion that for me is always changing.

this is 3200 x 1200

[Anonymous]

The only way to fly.
I cant see using AC with anything other than dualie monitors.
It's as if AC was meant to be used this way.

Try to use Architectural Desktop with dual monitors.....wrong!!!

[Karl Ottenstein]

Screenshot is 2560 x 1024. I'm sure you'll find as many screen layouts as users! 😉

One of the great things about 9.0 is the new user profiles. I'd go crazy on Dwight's and he on mine, but if we were at each other's places, we could load our own profiles off a USB flash key and happily work 'our' way. 😉

Karl

[Dwight]

Karl is obviously right handed to make such a backwards screen scheme, and works on drawing sets instead of discrete renderings that get exported to Indesign like me.

My layout is always in flux, related to the proportion of the project plan - sometimes across and sometimes upanddown. But unlike most, ArchiCAD actually spends little time as the desktop.

I've got this other problem with the two screen layout. It's Bubble Trouble. Its important. When you switch the main screen to Bubble Trouble's 480x640 resolution it messes up any palettes you have laid out on the main screen. So they have to go on the left.