Hi. I'm new to the Forum but have been using SW for a couple of years. I've taken a new job and was given a Workstation PC with two 24" displays. I got it up and running today and get how I can drag documents from one display to the other. But I can't seem to do that in SW. Am I missing something? Thanks, Wayne
I'm not sure what you mean by two 'instances' of SW. Do you mean having two sessions of SW running at the same time?
Yes
That seems to work relatively well. Thanks!
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Span displays works kind of wierd.
Hello Wayne,
Would you mind expanding on what you mean by 'span displays works kind of weird'? Do you have two monitors that are side by side and in the same orientation, or 1 that is vertical, and other that is horizontal? Your work area will be much different if you have 2 sessions of SW running - 2 sets of menus, 2 task panes, etc...where as span displays would have 1 set of menus, etc.
Thanks
Tom
What keeps me from using the span-displays functionality in SW is the single window concept. Unless you have the same resolutin on both monitors (which I don't) I wind up with a bar of useless space at the bottom of one monitor. Additionally, when using spanned displays, my other running programs obscure important parts of my Solidworks interface and I have to constantly resize and adjust the Solidworks Window size to fit in my other windows.
It would be my preference that Solidworks handle multiple open documents the way MicroSoft Word does-with each getting it's own interface window. I don't see a problem with a set of controls for each document. It might even be quicker than having to go all the way to the left monitor to access the file menu and then go all the way to the bottom right to change the document units.
I haven't figured out all of the what-ifs, but off the cuff, that's my take.
Are you trying to run two instances of SW or are you trying to move SW to a different monitor?