topic Re: no boundary showing when i click and drag the mouse in Installation & update

no boundary showing when i click and drag the mouse

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:29:40 GMT

i have no boundary showing when i click the mouse and then drag it. it also doesn't show up when i am drawing a wall or any other object either. it also doesn't show up when i drag an existing object around the screen. any suggestions.

Re: no boundary showing when i click and drag the mouse

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:03:31 GMT

Might be a graphics card driver problem.

Re: no boundary showing when i click and drag the mouse

Stuart Atkinson — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:50:19 GMT

The bounding box for objects etc can be turned on under Preferences - Miscallaneous page - "Show ghost bounding box of objects, columns and figures".

However this does effect the bounding box when clicking and dragging with the mouse, so perhaps you do have a graphics card problem.

Cheers
Stuart.

Re: no boundary showing when i click and drag the mouse

Djordje — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:25:05 GMT

To check the card, do the tests in the Graphic card test forum. It will show you quite a bit ...

Re: no boundary showing when i click and drag the mouse

kevin b — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:01:04 GMT

So i see this post is quite old however, we are experiencing what appears to be the same problem on one of our stations.

When objects are selected, they do not show any boundary at all, no snap points, nothing, you just have to click out in space to move or copy. IN both the arrow tool and the marquee tool, you can not see the boundary of your selection area as you drag. It appears to be specific to the instance of the application and not related to graphics card.

We have it happening on one machine. This user has two copies of ArchiCAD in order to open multiple sessions (mostly typical in our office). All files opened with the "original" version exhibit the problem. Same files opened on "copy" of ArchiCAD seem to be fine.

Additionally, it seeminngly appeared out of nowhere yesterday. Nothing had changed on the machine. At first we assumed it was some hidden preference or WE setting that was inadvertantly changed by an unknown keyboard short cut, but couldn't find anything. Which I guess still could be the case and we just couldn't find the setting.

Deleting the "original" and making a new "copy" of either the "copy" or the "original" seems to have fixed it.

Very odd. Anyoone else getting this? Know the cause??