Skewed Screen on New Monitor

[blemmon]

I just started using Autocad 2000 on a new Dell Computer (with Windows Vista OS) and a 20" wide screen monitor.

Everything works great so far except circles are showing as elipses on the screen.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Bob

[Kate M]

Make sure you're using the monitor's native resolution. My 20" widescreen requires an 8:5 aspect ratio (1680:1050).

[Gar]

Since the new monitor is a widescreen, make sure that you have set for a widescreen layout... if you play with the screen resolutions on the settings tab of the display properties menu, you should hopefully be able to find a seting that suits that wide format (a wider rectangular shape, rather than the thinner rectangular...)

Hopefully, this makes sense...

[blemmon]

Thanks for the input! Got it working!
-Bob

[CADTutor]

Thanks for the input! Got it working!
-Bob

You could tell us how you did it. Might save someone else with the same problem in the future. :wink:

[blemmon]

You could tell us how you did it. Might save someone else with the same problem in the future. :wink:

Kate M. mentioned that her 20" widescreen requires an 8:5 aspect ratio (1680:1050). So I went to the control panel settings and changed the monitor settings to as close as possible to the 1680:1050 ratio. It took a couple tries and it worked out great.
-Bob