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WojtekS
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Hello All

I am new to AECOsim. After years of using of Microstation I assume that it is a natural step forward, which sooner or later we all must make. It is not easy. I installed it on my laptop. The native resolution of my desktop is 3200x1800 on a 15" screen. It is first of my problems. Some or a lot of the names of the icons, commands, symbols are hardly readable. Some of the buttons in openable menus appear over the content and are "hard" to be pressed. I have already played with preferences without success.

It probably cannot be fixed just like that but I would be grateful if anyone knows a solution for this. Changing the resolution does not help.

with best regards

Wojtek

SS5 747 English with dataset NM 730

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  • 0 Offline in reply to Nasir Ghani
    It's a laptop - there's only one screen refresh rate - 60Hz
    More and more I belief that the problem is within Microstation itself.
    Wojtek
  • 0 in reply to WojtekS

    I am working on a laptop too and I have 2 rates 40 Hertz and 60 Hertz. 

    Which video card do you have installed? If you have an NVIDIA video card, did you try changing the settings using the NVIDIA Control Panel, this gives you more control over the GPU.



  • 0 Offline in reply to Nasir Ghani
    Hi Nasir,

    The laptop has 2 graphic cards. One is Intel's and mother board integrated. Second one is NVIDIA Quadro. Bentley's applications are set to use NVIDIA. Irrespective of this I have only one refresh rate. And I still believe that the problem is in the Bentley software itself.
    Maybe if it is not too late the problem could be solved with SS6

    Regards
    Wojtek
  • 0 Offline in reply to WojtekS
    Hello
    I can only sympathise at this point. But this is one of the things that has so far put me off getting a higher resolution monitor. Already on a laptop with a 1920 x 1080 res, I'm finding some of the icons too small. One hopes that Bentley will address this soon as there are now some 4K monitors available at approachable prices.

    Regards

    Danny Cooley

    Freelance AEC CAD/BIM Technician Architecture, MEP & Structural  ..... (& ex Low Carbon Consultant, ..... because they weren't that bothered!)

    OBD Update 10, Windows 10 Pro, HP Z4-G4, 64Gb, Xeon 3.6GHz, Quadro M4000

  • 0 Offline in reply to danny-cooley
    There are two places to affect the size of your buttons.

    One is with Windows resolution for all buttons. I have tried the Medium as I have hires monitors also and they will get bigger (my next is a 42" that is touch screen) Go to Control Panel - Hardware and Sound - Display.
    This worked most of the time but I did find issues with Mstation not working on some tasks. You have three size options.

    Secondly you can go into Microstation - Workspace - Preferences Look and Feel and change the Tool Size and View Tool Size

    Ustn since 1988
    SS4 - i7-3.45Ghz-16 Gb-250/1Tb/1Tb-Win8.1-64b

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    Architect + Master Planner + BIM
    Senior  Master Planner NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center

    The Milberger Architectural Group, llc

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