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Dual monitors

Dual monitors

Dual monitors

(OP)
Does anyone know what is involved with running autocad 2002 on dual monitors? I already have the hardware to run windows on both screens. Can you have different view ports on each screen?

RE: Dual monitors

You can basically do it two ways. Run it as one big virtual screen or as two "desktops". The desktop method gives you the same options as normal Windows (if you can pull an item out as a floating window, then you can drag it to any area of the desktop).

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

RE: Dual monitors

(OP)
Thank you Borgunit,
 So, I will be able to view any parts of my drawing, on either monitor, in a single editing session?

RE: Dual monitors

The way I have seen it work is: you drag a window to the monitor you want to see it on.  You can drag the text screen to one and leave the graphic screen on another.  They do not bleed between monitors unless you drag it halfway.

RE: Dual monitors

I can't view two viewports in the same file on mine, but I can view two different applications at once.  That is very helpful.    I open my spreadshett and do calcs as I draft and can check both as I go.

Or as IFRs said, I put things that usually block the viewport (text box, properties window) on one monitor and can still see my work.

Having two monitors takes a little getting used to, but I love it now.

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