1) What you need to do is set the desktop to extend across all of your monitors you are using. 2) Start Revit Architecture. It will either appear in a single monitor or across all of the monitors combined. 3) Make sure that Revit is set to be in a floating window (one that is not locked in place but can be moved). 4) Move the Revit Window so the top left corner of the window aligns with the top left corner of your furthest left monitor (top left monitor if you stack monitors vertically) 5) Drag the bottom right corner of the Revit window to align with the bottom right corner of your bottom-right most monitor. 6) When you open up views within a project, make them flowating windows, and you can move them around in any way you wish across all the monitors now. 7) The only drawback is that when you finish the session, I have not found a way to keep the settings exact. However, I have found that if you open Revit through the Project File you want to work in and NOT the Revit Icon on the Desktop, all you have to do is simply align the corners. Revit will remember the locations of the views within the Revit Window, so Once you align the corners you should be good to go. For example. I currently use 3 Monitors. The Center is my main with 2 flanking monitors on either side. With Revit extended over all the monitors I use the left monitor for 3d Views of my model and schedules, the center monitor I use for the floor plans, and the right monitor for elevations and sections (as well as using it a sthe monitor that my Web Browser is set to open (like when I access Revit City and Autodesks Revit Web Library to download Families) The only drawback is that the Design Bar and Menu Bar are on the far left side. The Project Browser can be moved however to where ever you want it. There might be a way to move the Design Bar, but it doesn't bother me where it is, so I haven't looked into it. The good part about Revit is there is more than 1 way to get to a command (ie Right Cliking) and if you take the time to conform to them, then this becomes a minor issue. Also, for me, with the Design Bar and Project Browser on the Far Left, I have the full width of the center monitor for the Floor Plan Views where I do most of my work. Unfortunately, it is not an automatic thing and takes time to learn how to set-up, but once you do, it works beautifully. I do wish that revit could remember to open up extended across the monitors, but hey, that's what wish lists are for. In the end, the 30 Seconds it takes to open Revit and realign the windows is miniscule compared to the amount of time I save by doing it. Good Luck.
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