Working with Multiple Monitors

You can open multiple windows in one session and see the same document or different documents on multiple monitors.

For example, if your computer is connected with two monitors, you can display 3D model on one of them and a drawing with the same model projections on the other. Changes in the model are displayed in all main windows that are associated with the same document. So that, changes in the model made on the first monitor are immediately displayed on the projections at another monitor after the Regenerate all command activation.

Main windows are independent of each other in terms of user interface. Each of the windows has its own commands, input parameters, and other user interface elements.

The system will ask you about saving of the document only when you close the main window with its last open copy.

You can copy document to a new main window via command New Main Window:

You can transfer document to a new main window via command Move to Main Window:

Calling the command invokes the drop-down menu containing the list of all main windows of the current session. Current window is marked by the check mark. There's also the New Main Window option in the top of the list. Unlike the eponymous command, this option moves the document to the new window instead of copying it.

These commands are also available in the document tabs' context menus.

The main windows of the same session are numbered. Number of a window is displayed in its title in parentheses. It helps to choose the main window if you want to copy or transfer a document window.

 

You can also have several T-FLEX CAD sessions running simultaneously on the same computer (just launch the application several times). However, windows belonging to different sessions are not synchronized, so you are not able to work with same document in different sessions. When opening a document already opened in another session, the warning message is displayed above the active view window: "Document is opened by another user. You can save the document only with a different name or in a different folder". Initially such document is opened in a special viewing-only mode, where all drawing and 3D modeling commands are disabled. Upon clicking the Disable button, the warning disappears and the viewing-only mode remains active. The same thing happens upon clicking the button in the top right corner of the warning message. Upon clicking the Allow editing button, the system switches to the default editing mode, where all commands are available; however saving changes is only possible into another document. Trying to save the edited document under the same name in the same folder as the initial document will lead to an error.