Engineers who have two monitors - unsubscribe

Question

Iron

I'm wondering, electronics engineers (Autocad, Altium, etc) with two monitors.
Unsubscribe how you use two monitors (on one main drawing, on the other - what? )

Answer 1

The second appeared unfortunately after the university, and I only used CADs at the university. But now I would have on the second drawing either another drawing (for comparison, a sample, sketch, etc.), or a reference book/calculations/records and other supporting information. Those. everything for which you would have to fold the drawing.
Well, as an option for a wild fantasy - you can have side / top views or a 3D model, but I don’t know how to make them in a separate window and so that they are relevant to the drawing.

Answer 2

I'm not an engineer, but I do a lot of engineering work too. It’s very convenient: for example, you draw a drawing in QCad or a diagram in KiCad on one monitor, or you type some article in kile, and on the second you keep the originals / sketches / browser / etc.
It is also very convenient to work with Gimp: on one monitor, the window with the image is full screen, and on the second - all the menus.
And with software, it’s generally convenient: you have geany on one monitor, and a console on the second, where you run make && ./app
And it’s very convenient to develop all sorts of mathematical models in Octave.

Answer 3

I have three.
1. Scheme
2. Printed circuit board
3. everything that does not concern Altium is here - skype, browser, docks, etc.
In fact, two or more monitors are always convenient - if there is a need to keep many windows open.
For example, often one monitor is full of putty windows.

Answer 4

I'm not really into electronics - network design, SCS
4 desktops for 2 monitors.
In the upper left are all sorts of consoles-jabbers, mail, etc., in the right - a browser, documentation, specifications that I read.
Lower two monitors:
in the left notebooks + documents that I edit (libre office calc for calculations, the documentation that I write.
in the right - virtual machine with CAD in full screen

Answer 5

On one diagram, on the other trace PP. It's not for me, but for my colleagues. Well, or just documentation.

Answer 6

I usually have documentation on the second. True, the development I have at an amateur level.

Answer 7

I am engaged in setting up / programming a system for the development / placement / production of IMOS furniture. The system works just on the basis of Autocad. On the main monitor there is one large working field, on the second - toolbars, Aimp and Skype. It is also convenient to work directly with the project on the main monitor, and keep the source files (pictures, pdf, original AutoCAD drawing) on ​​the secondary monitor