I did a search here about dual monitors and found some old posts and some that really didn’t help me. Wondering how SU works with dual monitors? I have a 22inch Monitor and my default tray and add-on menus are taking up real estate that I want for working. Is going dual better? Does it work? Or…

Dual monitors should work fine, but be aware that for best results they should have the same resolution and once you start using dual monitors you should always have both of them attached and live. There are occasional reports here of SketchUp losing track of where to place its UI panels (that is, …

Thanks a lot. I was hoping for a screen shot to show me what it looked like.

I run SU on Mac with two monitors of very different resolution - an iMac 5K 27" screen for the main working window, and a much smaller portrait orientation 17" (diagonal) monitor, running at 1024x1280 which sits to the right of the main iMac screen, and is very closely matched in vertical screen hei…

Thanks John. I don’t have a Mac but your setup is closer to what I envisioned using.

I used to do the same with a Windows 7 machine, a Full HD 24" main monitor (1920x1280 IIRC) and the same 17" monitor in portrait. One connected via HDMI, the other via DVI. The HDMI connection to the main monitor wouldn’t auto-powersave to black, but would show a bright blue screen until manually s…

I use a second monitor, actually as the primary one, on my MacBook Pro while on my desk, and only the laptop display on the road. I keep two sets of preference/jason files to swap in an out, which is a real pain. That’s the kind of process that computers are good at performing, but now one’s put t…

I use it with 3 monitors: laptop (15" HD) 32" 4k 24" HD (vertical) Depends on how you want to work. Moving toolbars to other monitors is fine, if you work with one instance of SU. If you are sing several instances of SU - this will become confusing. Note, if you change configuration sometimes (e…

[image] Sonder: I have three! those are rather TV’s, than monitors :slight_smile:

Not much of a difference these days other than refresh rate which you don’t need more than 60hz for most applications. Now gaming that’s a different story!

Does SU work with dual Monitors?

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Geo July 15, 2019, 10:45am 22

Just fine.

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Does SU work with dual Monitors?

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