Question about Revit and two monitors

[Matt Mercer]

I can not seem to use my second monitor in Revit? Does anyone have the same problem or a quick fix?

Thanks Matt

[Scott D Davis]

I run Revit on two monitors. I usually have the Revit window just on one monitor or the other, and reserve the free monitor for an Explorer window for families, other apps, or AUGI... :-)

Occasionally, I manually stretch the Revit window across both monitors, open two projects in the same session of Revit, and then tile two windows, one from each project. I can then copy-n-paste between the two projects.

One draw back that I can't figure out: drop-down lists from within dialog boxes do not work on the secondary monitor. I can activate the drop down, and then scroll through options with the keyboard arrows, or drag the dialog to the primary monitor.

[funkman]

Scott, I used to have that problem too running two monitors with Win Pro and revit, but not anymore with the new system. I wonder if this is an accident in win64?

[SkiSouth]

Scott's right. I I have two different size monitors, so the image is screwed when I try to work across monitors. :banghead: You can see from the attached image that Revit WILL jump monitors, I just don't because you see what happens with my setup - Oh well..

[SCShell]

Hey there,

I do it pretty much like Scott; however, every once in a while, if a project starts looking too small on the screen for what I want to do, I have another technique.

Minimize the Revit window on the main screen (left in my case) and then stretch the entire window (grab the lower right corner) to fill both screens with the Revit window. Then, adjust the screen so that the browser and menu is on the left and entire workscreen is on the right one. This technique only adds screen length, not height. But, it makes a difference some times.

Hope this helps
Steve

[janunson]

This works as long as your main monitor is the one on the left. Otherwise, things don't work so well on the browser and design bar. also, zooming w/ the mouse wheel doesn't work on secondary monitors.

None of the dialogs remember their posistions between sessions either, so if you do family editing it's nice that the parameters dialog is resizable and you can set it in the secndary monitor to get it to work pretty well, you just have to reconfigure all the dialogs every time you restart revit.

[Damo]

I have my main monitor on the right and it works OK.

I drag the Design Bar and Project Browser on to the left-hand monitor, and increase the width of the Project Browser, leaving the right-hand monitor dedicated to the model.

In previous versions, opening another Revit file (in the same session) would re-set the Design Bar & Project Browser, but not with the latest build. However, as you said, starting a new session I have to reset my layout.

[Matt Mercer]

Thanks for all the input. I'll have to use the second one for windows explorer.

Thanks again Matt