Some time AECOsim automaticly open 8 View .How to turn off this function ?
Thank you
Hello,
What you are seeing is the "Heads Up" display for AECOsim Building Designer Mechanical. This opens when you select the Modify Properties tool for mechanical components. You can modify parameters on the component directly in that view. See the image below:
It will always open up. You can simply click back on the other views and the Heads Up view will be sent to the back of all the views and stay there until you bring it back to the front. To do that go to the Main Menu > Window pull-down and select View 8 (you can use the keyboard shortcuts alt-w and then the number next to View 8 in the list, in my case alt-w 5 ).
Or you can minimize View 8 down to the lower left.
Also, if you have two monitors there is a user preference named "Open Two Application Windows", turned on from the Main Menu > Workspace > Preferences, Operation Category pull-down. A re-start of AECOsim is required for this option to take effect.
This allows there to be two ABD "windows" on the desktop. Any dialog boxes, etc. can be moved over and docked if preferred to the other monitor. Views can be moved over by clicking the icon on the top left corner of the view and selecting "Change Screen"
So the interface can be set up like this and have the Heads Up view over on the other monitor ready to use when needed and can be a quick-look review of the components as you modify them (this is a screen shot across my two monitors, Views 1, 2 and 3 on monitor one and Views 4, 5 and 8 and the DataGroup Instance dialog box on monitor two):