VW2017: Open to full width, migrated workspace

[Andy Broomell]

Every time I open Vectorworks it only fills about half of the screen. Then I double click the title bar to maximize its size (I'm on a Mac). Why doesn't it remember this from session to session? I know it's a small thing but it's annoying to have to resize it every time I open the program.

Looking into this further I see that it's not a problem with the default workspaces (which open full width), but only my custom workspace which was migrated from 2016. I've tried "Save Palette Positions" but that doesn't help.

I hope the answer isn't to rebuild my workspace in 2017 because I have a metric ton of customizations...

[zoomer]

Do you work in "full" Full Screen Mode ?
 

I do only work with the "Soft Full" Screen Mode,
meaning I "ALT+Click" on the Green Light,
to maximize the App Window only on normal screen.

That Size will be kept by OS X.

(I have set double click the title bar to hide App in Dock)

Edited September 18, 2016 by zoomer

[Andy Broomell]

No, I'm not working in actual "Full Screen" mode. Which is why I was careful to say "full width"

By the way, my System Preferences are set up so that double clicking the application's title bar does the same thing as Alt-clicking the green button (which I didn't know you could do - thank you!).

[zoomer]

Perhaps there is a little difference between title bar double click and ALT+GREEN "zooming" ?

Have you tried to resize the window from standard mode manually to max the size ?
Perhaps that way the size is kept ?

For me it works by ALT+GREEN.
But I remember having had smaller V Window when same file was saved on my Macbook in between.

[Andy Broomell]

Yeah, I've tried double clicking the title bar, alt-clicking the green button, and manually resizing the window. Every respective time I restart VW it resets to a skinny window.

[zoomer]

Have you converted your workspace from 2016 to 2017 ?
Have you tried with one of the default workspaces ?

As I said about smaller screen after Mackbook use , that should be a setting included in File though.

[PVA - Admin]

Does anything else reset to default settings after restarting Vectorworks? Or just the workspace positioning?

In either case, this article is designed to fix a separate issue but if the problem is related to permissions this will guide you through manually fixing them:

http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/634/Standard+User+Accounts+-+Vectorworks+not+launching+{47}+Not+retaining+license+information

This will not damage your workspace or other customizations.

[Andy Broomell]

No luck with the permissions thing, but thank you for the idea.

Nothing else resets, just the width of the main window. Floating palettes are in their correct positions (screenshot below.)

[PVA - Admin]

If you close Vectorworks, (and any other apps, since we're going to poke something that might mess with their positions) then go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Display, pick a different resolution or scaling option, anything other than it's current setting. Then, relaunch Vectorworks and expand it, then restart Vectorworks, does it keep it's position? If not, does it look the same way off as it does in your screenshot or does it do something different? You can put your resolution/scaling back the way it was after the test in any case.

It seems odd to try, but it might narrow down which thing is messing with it's location memory, since Save Palette Positions and/or closing Vectorworks is supposed to write that setting to your VW prefs folder and permissions with that folder wasn't the issue.

[Andy Broomell]

It does the same thing on different resolutions. :-/

[kob]

Has there been a fix to this issue?  I have experienced the same thing ever since upgrading to VW2017.  I used to think it was because I was running an external monitor with a Macbook Pro.  However, I've since upgraded to a Mac Pro, and the issue still persists.  Vectorworks 2017 was installed as a fresh install on the new machine, so there shouldn't be any issues with importing an old workspace.  When I open the application, the window only covers the left 4/5 of the screen.  I option-click the green button in order to maximize the window and all is fine.  Not a huge issue at all, but if there's a fix, I'd love to know.