User interface sizing

[steve220]

Just installed 5.1. On my machine, all of the user interface items (text, icons, etc) are much larger than in the older software. Is there a setting or way to adjust that?

[S3D-Jason]

Can you post a screenshot? Can you also confirm what text and icon scaling settings you are using on your OS?

[steve220]

The first image is 4.1, the second image is 5.1. My overall OS scaling for text and icons is 150%.

[S3D-Rick]

Can you try following these steps?

• Download and unzip the attached file

• Copy the script into your S3D installation folder, usually C:\Program Files\Simplify3D-5.1.0

• Double click the script to open the software

• If desired, right click the script and choose Send To > Desktop (create shortcut) to make a new icon on the desktop that will use this mode

This is a simple batch script that changes the High DPI scaling mode to Passthrough, which should help with matching the scaling of the UI elements to the Windows scaling setting.

[myprinter]

More info here:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt.html#HighDpiS ... olicy-enum

[steve220]

The adjustscale batch file seems to work well. Thanks!

[steve220]

Unfortunately, this issue is back with version 5.1.1. The batch file doesn't seem to be working with the new version. Hopefully I'm doing something wrong, but copied the batch file into the 5.1.1 folder and then ran it.

[S3D-Jason]

We have run V5.1.1 on many different displays in our office and haven't been able to reproduce any scaling issues so far. We have also confirmed with several customers that were having issues in earlier V5.0.x versions that the latest V5.1.1 release is working much better for them. However, there are a lot of displays out there any it's possible you have a special setup that is different from all the ones we've tested in-house or all the other customers we have talked to.

Can you share your exact monitor, the current resolution you are using, and the Windows text scaling setting you are currently using?

You can also try editing the script attached above to replace the line "set QT_SCALE_FACTOR_ROUNDING_POLICY=PassThrough" with one of the following:

set QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0

OR

set QT_SCALE_FACTOR=N (where N can be 1, 2, 3, etc)