how many people work with dual monitors?

[Butch .H]

Fanie was Clay the school bully

[Knut Sand]

I have a 17" laptop, docking station, and a 22", keyboard and trackball etc. connected to that again, I thought it would be a problem with different screen sizes, but I can't say that I notice it. I look at SolidWorks (or CosmosWorks) on the big one, and pick parts/ information, other viewers and internet on the smaller. The laptop solution gives me some flexibility (but far lower WAF...), even though I will consider a 17" to be relocateable not truly portable... I just hate carrying stuff around.

Yes, and of course it's a HP... Running XPP.....

[Fanie]

Fanie was Clay the school bully

I saw that !!

[u4ea32]

I have three 24 inch LCDs. I want to up upgrade to three 30 inch soon.
I use them all, all the time.

[Fanie]

He he... For you bigger and better guys do remember it is the OLD guys with the WORST eyes that needs the BIGGEST monitors

I have this large monitor and magnifying glass thing beat. I have a projector, and the screen is 2m wide

[yipster]

magnifying glas, big CRT monitor and a ball of confusion renewing monitor
nobody knows why tv's and monitors are still at different floors in the shop
regular TV, HD ready and HD resolution dont reduce font sizes and heavy duty
video cards go over but dont support HDTV 1920x1080 resolution
dont know if my media center does HD and a 42" full pip has me thinking

[pashbe1]

I use 2 20" LCD's. One has my main CAD window, and the buttons are on the other. My Outlook opens on the button screen so that I can monitor it throught the button bars. The button screen also functions as a web search screen when researching parts for the drawing. Another great thing is running my CAD on the main screen and ISO spreadsheets and lists on the other. That way I have data from the model easily accessible.

More important than a 2nd monitor for productivity is a 3d mouse (3dconnexion or similar). I can live without a second monitor but not the 2nd mouse!

p.s. I have tried one big monitor but found covering all that real estate cumbersome. For some reason with 2 screens the controlls tend to be concentraded in the screen I am using.

p.p.s. I have a Whiteboard on the wall infront of my monitors and a project on to it for my bosses. I project the model onto it and they mark it up with fat crayons. Then I take a picture and work off of that. :-)

[marshmat]

We have a couple of those "smartboard" things in the office... they sound like such a good idea, and then nobody bothers to figure them out and so people just write on them with normal dry-erase markers.

My own setup now has evolved a bit.... a 20", 1680x1050 Acer LCD has joined the Toshiba's built in, 15.4" 1280x800. This seems to do nicely for now, although the next computer will definitely have better screen space. If only the poor Radeon 9000 graphics card could drive the big one at any kind of decent frame rate.... SolidEdge and Rhino shaded/rendered views are almost painful to rotate and pan when a big model is open, unfortunately.

3dconnexion controller is definitely on the wish list....

[pashbe1]

The 3dmouse is to CAD what a graphics tablet is to Photoshop.

I'll never use anyting but Nvidia graphics cards again. The FX series is made for CAD work.

[BHOFM]

The three setup only runs on one computer, we use for
flightsimulator. The center runs on all five through a
KVM switch.

[yipster]

checked on a 3d mouse becouse i know a good big mouse or bal is nice for cad, but 3d around your finger? looking a bit further i see all sorts of devices
including pc guns and flashed back to early ninetys when i was jumped by customs that saw my just bought at the same miami airport pc game with gun
on the rontgen, my game had to be transported in the cockpit that looked again much like the split screen set-up above, msfs?

see i made some progres since my last post, low cost wifi sticks now network to extra pc in the living room on a new tv, think i should be drawing tho

[schakel]

The small screen is for the commands.
The large screen is for the mouse and the template and the DWG.

And yes we are talking about Autocad applications then.

[lazeyjack]

save me searchin' I have got the duels up and runnin, but cloned, how can I config to show different, I am in Rhino, thank you muchely

[marshmat]

Right now you're showing the exact same thing on both monitors- one's just a clone of the other? In Windows?

Open the Windows "display properties" box (right click on the desktop, select "properties"). Choose the "Settings" tab. Select the black rectangle representing your second monitor, check the box saying "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor", and drag the rectangle to match where your monitors physically are.

You should now have your usual Windows taskbar on one, and a blank desktop on the other, to which you can drag program windows as you use them.

In Rhino4, the command "NewFloatingViewport" will create a mobile viewport in its own little window, which you can drag to a secondary monitor.

[lazeyjack]

ta everso Matty,
oh you added lazyjack stead of lazeyjack, my mistake, je suis desole) now lemme try this