Lost Toolbars (Pop Up Command Boxes)

This happens to me in AutoCad and in Inventor. (so I'm going to double post in other forum as well)

At work, I use two monitors running off of my laptop. I have a nice big screen HP that I prefer to draft off of. Problem is when executing commands that typically prompt a pop-up box (such as hatch, layer properties, constrain, fillet). When running the dual monitors, sometimes I'll move my main model screen to the large screen monitor off of my laptop. When prompted to use said commands and the box appears, I carry on with drafting. When I get home and execute the command, I cannot find the box. The command will execute, but I cannot find the box as it still thinks its on the other monitor.

Currently, the only way to get it back is when I'm at the shop with my dual monitors, I'll execute said command and drag the box back into the laptop monitor and I'll have it again whenever I'm using from home. (As long as I keep it there)

This forces me to constantly draft from the smaller laptop monitor. But frustrates me when home trying to put in extra hours or doing something for myself.

Can anyone help me figure out how to bring all command boxes back to the monitor I'm working on????

Thanks

Assuming you are taking the laptop home, when at home, if you force the graphics driver to single monitor mode, it should move all graphics to one screen. When you go back to work, turn the second monitor back on in the graphics drivers. You can usually do this by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting properties or, you may see a NVIDIA or ATI Control panel option on the pop-up menu. You would then make the changes under Display Settings.

WES

This happens to me in AutoCad and in Inventor. (so I'm going to double post in other forum as well)

 

At work, I use two monitors running off of my laptop. I have a nice big screen HP that I prefer to draft off of. Problem is when executing commands that typically prompt a pop-up box (such as hatch, layer properties, constrain, fillet). When running the dual monitors, sometimes I'll move my main model screen to the large screen monitor off of my laptop. When prompted to use said commands and the box appears, I carry on with drafting. When I get home and execute the command, I cannot find the box. The command will execute, but I cannot find the box as it still thinks its on the other monitor.

 

Currently, the only way to get it back is when I'm at the shop with my dual monitors, I'll execute said command and drag the box back into the laptop monitor and I'll have it again whenever I'm using from home. (As long as I keep it there)

 

This forces me to constantly draft from the smaller laptop monitor. But frustrates me when home trying to put in extra hours or doing something for myself.

 

Can anyone help me figure out how to bring all command boxes back to the monitor I'm working on????

Thanks

Yes, I'm taking the laptop home.

Thanks~ I'll give this a go!