Material Editor Window Will Not Open

[Bill Tillman]

I'm trying to edit some material properties before rendering. But suddenly, I can no longer open up the Material Edit window. I searched and it said to look where it was last opened. Ok, I did that because I was using it this morning. But then it disappeared for good and I cannot figure out how to re-open it. I've cold booted my computer and restarted AutoCAD but the results are the same. So what am I missing. This copy is AutoCAD 2013 and it has SP1 and SP2 loaded.

 

UPDATE: OK...something weird happened. I finally found it but it was hidden beneath the other icons which I have anchored on the left. I was only able to get to it by carefully placing my mouse on a piece of it and dragging it out into the model space. So, what gives and how can I avoid this in the future?

[ReMark]

Place it where you want then make sure you save the workspace?

[Cad64]

Here's something you can do, for any floating window, if this happens again: http://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/2007/01/an_autocad_hip_.html

[Bill Tillman]

Thanks. I found the article by Lynn Allen very informative and it shows that this kind of stuff happens to others as well. And I was using this desktop from a remote location yesterday. That always throws the resolution off and thus it's why the window seemed to disappear.