Improve the save palette positions command

[Keith Hone]

I use two monitors and dock palettes together on one monitor. Every morning, I have to reshape the docked palettes on the main screen and move them to the second monitor. 

[E|FA]

I have never really understood what Save Palette Positions actually does.  There doesn't seem to be a "Restore Palette Positions" command to put them back to wherever they're saved to.

 

Maybe this thread's title should be changed to "add restore palette positions command".

Edited August 14, 2023 by E|FA

[Cadplan Architecture]

On 8/14/2023 at 8:32 PM, Keith Hone said:

I use two monitors and dock palettes together on one monitor. Every morning, I have to reshape the docked palettes on the main screen and move them to the second monitor. 

great idea I will try it. Are you on a Mac connected by Thunderbolt cables?

[E|FA]

See additional suggestions starting with this comment on a different thread,:

 

 

[Dan Hoffman]

OK, I thought this was an issue that was unique to my old installation of VW 2024 on a machine with 7 years of accumulated updates and migrations, but I just installed VW 2025 on a brand new machine (clean install, fully updated of Windows 11 Home, latest Nvidia drivers, etc ) and....it's definitely a bug. And a really maddening and annoying little one at that....

 

I'm using a pair of 4K monitors, side by side, so I set up one with mostly just the drawing, and put the Object Info, Navigation and Resource Manager on the second one, get all the palettes arranged to my liking, i.e.:

Tool sets on the left are expanded to just below Basic, and OIP, Sheet Layers, Design Layers & Classes are all about equal-sized.

 

Then hit Window menu, Palettes menu, do a 'save palette positions' (twice for good measure), then do a normal exit out of VW.

It starts back up into this:

Tool sets has gone back to the middle, Navigation is tiny and Sheet Layers that I'd separated is completely gone (hiding at the bottom of OIP, in reality).

 

The only workaround I've found so far is to not dock any palettes, just let them all float and drag them around to recreate the same approximate layout....like I used to do on the first machine I ever had dual screens (~2013ish)....

 

(and a note that to even be able to position the palettes like this, I had to enable this option, otherwise they would just snap randomly once I dragged them onto the second monitor:

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