cant access drop down menus

[borsht]

So I've just been pushed from my computer which broke, to limp along on the company laptop for a while. Upon opening a certain part, the graphics display was missing. All I could see was the feature manager tree. I was able to pull down the view drop down, and turn off the tree so then I could see the graphics/part. I tried other options in the view drop down to get both showing. at some point I believe I hit a "full screen", and now I have the graphics window, and the sketch toolbar, but the toolbar is covering most of the menu dropdowns to the point where I cant access them.
Do you know the fix for this?

SolidWork Newbie since 2001
-Currently using SW2017

Inventor Newbie since 2019
-Currently using Inventor19

 

[SBaugh]

Tried changing the resolution? Maybe it's too small of a res.

Full screen shortcut is F11


Scott Baugh, CSWP
CAD Systems Manager
Evapar

http://www.evapar.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

faq731-376

 

[borsht]

So I fixed that last issue, by ctrl-alt-del, and ended task. Upon restarting SW it was good again. Now I have a similar situation(visually anyway). the measure dialog box wont show me results of the measure. I tried to pick the double down arrow, and it does nothing. I've tried changing the resolution , but that doesn't fix it. Complete reboot did nothing either. Cant wait til my desktop if fixed! Any ideas?



SolidWork Newbie since 2001
-Currently using SW2017

Inventor Newbie since 2019
-Currently using Inventor19

 

[SBaugh]

If you hit the down arrows, have you just tried to drag open the window with your mouse, as you do with any windows explorer window?

Scott Baugh, CSWP
CAD Systems Manager
Evapar

http://www.evapar.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

faq731-376

 

[borsht]

Thanks Scott. I had tried that to no avail. I ended up fixing it by persevering with clicking the double down arrow. There was a very small envelope of where it would react. Finally I found the sweet spot, and got it working again. But I have even better news. Dell put on it's listening ears and fixed my desktop, so I'm done fighting with the laptop and back to a real machine. Hopefully no more puzzlers for a while.

SolidWork Newbie since 2001
-Currently using SW2017

Inventor Newbie since 2019
-Currently using Inventor19