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Small icons and menu text
Icons and menu items are very small. Is there a way to increase the size? I am using the Ver. 6.4.3 on a new laptop with a 4K screen and 2nd monitor is a large FHD screen but I tried it on an older laptop with the same result. Forgive me if this has been addressed - the only post I could find was the same problem from 2005 with a 2K screen. Thanks!
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Re: Small icons and menu text
You can find the solution at the FAQ site:
Texts in the furniture catalog are not displayed correctly or icons in the toolbar appear very small on my computer. How can I fix that? You probably use a recent computer with a HiDPI or high resolution screen, under Windows or Linux. If you run Sweet Home 3D with Java Web Start, using the HiDPI Java Web Start version should fix this issue. If you use the installer version under Windows, update to version 6.0 which fixes this issue. For older versions, create a text file named SweetHome3D.l4j.ini in the same folder as SweetHome3D.exe, copy/paste the following Java options in that file, and restart Sweet Home 3D (you may also download SweetHome3D.l4j.ini file and move it in SweetHome3D.exe folder):
Under Linux, edit SweetHome3D script and add the previous options before -classpath Java option without line returns.
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Re: Small icons and menu text
I think I found a solution. When I took it off split screen and just used the larger, 2560 x 1440 screen, the icons appear large and very easy to see. More detail also appeared. Apparently the program doesn't like 2 screen mode. It could also be related to video card on laptop with 4K screen being just too much to split.
