I use the same laptop with multiple dock formats and many screen setups. Every time I restart the software at a different location, the program starts in a full screen window mode, not the last settings I had on the screen. This is also changing the layout and position of my tool “tray” palettes to be much bigger when I go from a small screen setup at the office or traveling to the big screens I have at the home office.
I much prefer working at a smaller window for multiple reasons (more screen for plugins, consistent 16:9 proportions [for more reasons], faster display of complicated models, etc.). Whatever changed from 2022 to 2023, maybe it was a useful idea for someone, but it just doesn’t work or fails for me. Is there a setting or something I can turn off? Do I have to go back to 2022 to be functional?
I have the same problem. Want to display my tool palettes (one for layers & Element Information and one the main palette with styles, scenes components ecc.) on my laptop screen, than sketchup main window on a bigger monitor. Everytime opening these palettes they are out of the screen and i have to resize them.
The top of the screenshot here is the top of my Laptop monitor!
And closing and reopening the file multiple times always gives a slightly different position!
You found a solution?
Unfortunately, this is the case with the SU2023. You will have to wait for SU2024 and see if it fixes the situation…
… or use the workaround what the last question in a post before your post suggests.
It’s also worth noting that Windows itself has some funny rules about when certain aspects of how monitors are connected can change - particularly you are using a scaling setting above 100% on any of your screens.
Windows sets many of its settings when you log in, so if you are using certain sleep or resumable modes and you have docked/undocked since the last login, then this can cause weirdness in places (not just sketchup)
Nope. SketchUp 2024 did not fix this. I suspect the programmers just haven’t had the time or mandate to read into the Windows dev tools and figure out what might be causing the system to forget how big a window was last time you opened the program…
My expectation is that because of the “tray” settings and locations, the system can’t figure out how big a window was.
Unfortunately, this is the case with the SU2023. You will have to wait for SU2024 and see if it fixes the situation…