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2560 x 1440 Resolution monitor and capture/pcb editor resolution help

cadSmith

Hello,

 I recently purchased a laptop with a really high resolution (2560x1440).   Most of windows type programs scale nicely but orcad and pcb editor do not.  All my icons and windows are very tiny which I work through by zooming in quite a bit.

 

Unfortunately the step package mapping dialogue window in pcb editor has the opposite problem.  It's very large and the bottom buttons (apply, ok, cancel) do not appear on the screen.  The window can be resized but the contents within the window borders do not scale so no matter what dimensions I stretch the window to I can not see the bottom area where the buttons are located.

 A scroll bar would really help the issue but the ability to change the resolution of dialogues and icons within the pcb editor program itself would be great.  Does anyone know how to go about configuring the software to work with higher resolution displays?

 

FYI:

I Changed the windows resultion down to 1920x1280 and even down to 1024x768 did not give me more step mapping dialogue visibility.

Thanks 

 

  •  It could be related to the Windows Font setup. Try this:- /forums/p/24932/1319470.aspx#1319470

  • I'm having the same problem with OrCad PCB v17.2. Version 16.6 worked just fine with my high resolution monitor (3040 x 2160), but in 17.2 the Visibility window is the only one that scales properly.  The Find and Options windows have very tiny button text that is partially obscured by the description above it, which renders it unreadable; and the menu buttons are also very tiny.  Adjusting the Font size doesn't affect the Find and Options windows.   If anyone has a solution please let me know!

  • Cadence issued S004 last night and in there are two new user preferences that should help. ui\general has tbriconsize which can be set small, medium, large for the icons sizes and ui\fonts has fontsize which can be set to suit for the text in forms. The default is 9 so try a value of say 12 and see if that helps after a restart
  • The fontsize only changes the text size in the Visibility window. The Find and Options windows' text size remains the same, as does the Command window. The large icon size for the buttons works well, though. Thanks!
  • After trying different scaling options in the Display settings and restarting the computer, the problem seems to have corrected itself. Hopefully, it'll stay fixed!
    If I ever figure out how it happened, I'll let you know!
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