How to control the interface for a high resolution monitor

Hi,

This is the view from a high resolution monitor (3840x 2160)

I can affect most icons and text to be readable, but:

  1. the task navigation pane doesn’t scale (icons to small, text on tabs, …)
  2. tool settings too small – but text is scaled
  3. some toolbars are good others are too small

how to set a proper user interface?

 AECOsim SS6 ( 8.11.09.863 )  win10

  • Rik, I don't have a High Resolution Monitor with which to test this but have seen it work on other's monitors.

    1. Right-click the AECOsim Building Designer icon you are using to open your drawings and click Properties.
    2. Click on the Compatibility tab
    3. Check (turn on) the option to "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings"
    4. If this does not help, try selecting the "Run in 640x480 screen resolution" option.

    HTH...

  • Hi Rik,
    In Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display setting size of all items to 150% seems to be a reasonable compromise between UI/text scaling and UI/icon size on hi-res screens.

    Regards

    Marc

  • Rik

    Marcs advise was good for me as you can follow in another thread. Search for YOGA in this forum.

    But I have also tested a Benq 3201PT with 3840x2160 pixels.

    And so far I have not changed any setting.

    regards / Thomas Voghera

  • Hi,


    I've tested the replays, but nothings brings the right answer.

    setting the screenscale to 150/200/250% makes things larger but the reason to go for a high resolution monitor is to have more space available.

    the screenscale reduces everything to a normal view, but all advantages are lost, which makes the investment in an expensive monitor useless.

    As you can see in the screen shot, most of the things are good scalable, but some not - this is ridiculous.

    can the "tool size", "view tool size"...  be designed to see the icons in bigger formats or just scalable so further development of bigger monitor resolutions ?

      Rik

  • The different tool sizes available within the existing preferences have minimal effect with these hi-res displays, a 24x24 icon looks much the same as 32x32, 6 pixels are obviously really small in this context.
    I've just tried setting a surface pro 3 (2160 x 1440) to 100% scaling with preferences set to large icons (32x32). The icons are clear (their sizes are fixed in pixels, the rest of the UI is scaled by the OS as far as I can see) but text generally is small (likewise for all applications), it looks fine but I'm not sure I'd work with that long term. Having changed to 125% that looks OK.
    I don't think the adjustments for individual text sizes consistently reach inside the ABD UI, using them messes up the proportioning of the Office 2013 interface so probably best left as default.

    I'm going to contact our UI design team for further advice on this.

    FWIW comparing the standard monitor alongside the Surface Pro, the text on the normal monitor looks woefully fuzzy compared to the solidity of the hi-res text, so it's not just about more space.

    Regards

    Marc