I was careful to say professional users … 
However, I’d urge home users of SU to try using multiple monitors in extended desktop mode, if they are able to do so. The ability to have one screen for the model, and another screen for keeping all your trays open significantly speeds up my workflow …
I know lots of CAD workers who just prefer one really big main monitor rather than multiples, lots of them also use a Cintiq as a primary. Most of the CAD folks in my office have one monitor and if they do have a second it’s a graphics tablet. Depends on the software you are using I suppose and if the toolbars undock and can be moved to another screen.
I’m pro enough and work with two screens in these modern times. The 4k i have for some time and the cell phone.
But I’m an architect, not a cad worker. And I work with SU, wouldn’t call it CAD… It’s another thingy which I love.
Yep I’m a 2 screener too. A big 1080p 42” plasma for my modeling screen (and to save my eyes!) and aCinema Display for all the dialogs
Yeah, watching some folks using CATIA and Alias they seem to like one large screen, while the people like me using CAD + Graphics seem to have a tablet screen too. I actually have three in work and at home I have two Samsung’s but if I could afford it I would trade in for a single Colour Edge any day of the week (or even a Dell Ultrasharp that I originally had but got smashed when I was shipping it to Sweden).
Of course not. At least I have two. But it is a plus if you can also use an application when on the train or otherwise working out of the office.
at first, I was skeptical using 2 monitors but after moving some tools and reclaiming back real estate for the main viewport of all my apps I really need new monitors…and I also was skeptical working standup instead of seated and I feel way more productive now…the next and most challenging is training myself to stop working on weekends, working late( 1-3am)…thinking about projects when I’m watching movies or working when I’m sleeping dreaming of a better solution/design.
Ah … right,now I understand what you’re getting at. However, that style of working doesn’t do it for me.
I’ve had one trial run using a laptop for remote CAD work, but my productivity was so low that I got rid of the laptop as soon as I got back to my normal base.
When it comes to showing work to clients, Vectorworks can host your model and give you a link which allows you to rotate and pan the model, and maybe even do simple walkthroughs, and I’d imagine that Archicad will offer similar functionality soon, if it doesn’t do so already. I doubt very much we will see that kind of feature coming to SU any time soon, but horses for courses.
Yep, that’s my next step, certainly in the home office. I’ve got back problems as it is, so to be able to choose to sit or stand would definitely be a good thing for me.
As for my system topology, in the home office, I have 3x 24" monitors. Nothing too fancy in terms of spec, but spread in an arc around my seating position, so I only have to scan left to right to see all the info that’s relevant. I’ve used this system with Revit, and also SU, and the principal is the same, one screen for the model, one screen for palettes, or trays, and the third monitor for non cad related software.
The other setup I use regularly is with a client who insists that I use their hardware, and who am I to argue. With that setup, I have a pair of 24" monitors, and the laptop screen for Office type software, Outlook, Excel, Word …
Hopefully this conversation isn’t going too far off topic for @Eduardo
My passion is derived from failed potential.
The idea of BIM is great, it is something so powerful and so crucial in pushing architecture to the next level.
Revit falls so short of what BIM should and could be it’s not funny. Yet it is sold as the solution to all the problems architects didn’t know they had.
That’s what annoys me. Autodesk are like terrible used car salesmen or real estate agents, hyping shoddy products, that have a hint of awesome, while knowing it wont deliver without a ■■■■ load of additional investment.
Create problems so you can sell solutions. Or sell solutions so you can create problems.
Make the wheel spin and don’t let it stop.
Edit: Rent the wheel if you can!
No problem!!! 
I had never thought of it that way before but it makes perfect sense
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when I looked through the monthly Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) digest, and a company had taken out a full page advert for a BIM plugin / extension for Revit. The irony was too much for me to bear … 
Another crazy thing about BIM, from my perspective, is that Facilities Managers don’t use it. To my mind they are the ones who should be driving the uptake, so that they can have an idea of the whole life cost of a building / scheduled maintenance / etc … hey ho. Not my problem, and if they aren’t asking for a populated BIM database, I’m not going to squander my time on entering the data.
I would guess that the FM part of BIM is still even more “in beta” than the design part, despite the hype that has been going on for quite a long time already. Big facility owners have got their existing data finally in a kind of working order in their legacy CAD-based databases, and now they would have to start from scratch or almost from scratch once again, even if new construction has used BIM for years already. I am still quite sure that BIM is the direction they are heading to, but it will take much, much more time than anticipated.
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