topic Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing in Modeling

Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:34:13 GMT

Does anyone know why anything i select in 3D will not stay selected after I make a change? I have to reselect in order to make more changes on the info box. This did not happen in AC11 so maybe it is a preference that I am missing?

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Erich — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:37:30 GMT

I am getting this too, even after the last hotfix. It would be great to have this fixed or to know where the correct setting is if I am missing something.

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:04:16 GMT

yep, still getting that, it's a "feature"!

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:18:30 GMT

Maybe I am missing something but mine stay selected. Anyway, Undo and Redo can be used as a work around AFAIK.

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:08:39 GMT

If Burghitect(no sig) is Mac, then so far only mac posters reporting this?
All ok here.(pc).
Bier

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:22:13 GMT

B,

I am using Os X and it is working fine. But I am in 10.5.5 and he might be using another version or probably Windows ME, sorry Vista.

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:11:40 GMT

hmm that's interesting about 10.5.... it may be related i guess
regardless... this has been a complete grind for me today... and it's not limited in 3D window (actually often when in 3D things work better) it's happening on plan: i select something and holding shift i wanna add to my selection, i get the pause/beachball and it may or may not work; i try to pick up properties and because it's sooo slow pausing etc it ends up selecting rather than picking up properties; i zoom in and out and although whatever i selected appears selected, the info box is empty!

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:51:15 GMT

I am using a Mactel with OS 10.5.5. it also happens in section/elevation views.

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:53:24 GMT

This happens to me in plan, section, elevation, and 3D. I didn't notice until I'd installed the hotfix. Before that, I didn't yell at my machine nearly as often, so I'm assuming that the Info Box maintained the info for the selected item before the hotfix.

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:33:59 GMT

Burghitect wrote:
Does anyone know why anything i select in 3D will not stay selected after I make a change? I have to reselect in order to make more changes on the info box. This did not happen in AC11 so maybe it is a preference that I am missing?

Just trying to be more like Revit 😉

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

Djordje — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:32:56 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Just trying to be more like Revit 😉

Yeah, being yourself is a bad thing ...

Re: Selected items in 3D don't stay selected after editing

jbArch — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:57:51 GMT

FWIW, this problem persists after the 2325 hotfix.

Played around some more and noticed that if you select an item (e.g. a wall) in 3D and then edit it, it will appear deselected in the info box. But you can still bring up the wall selection settings with a keystroke, and then edit it from there.

But there's a caveat: when you bring up the wall selection settings, they will be set to the "Default" wall settings.... instead it should give you the actual info for that particular wall.

It's a real mess, and in my opinion this should be a big priority for the next hotfix.

edit: this problem only happens for me in the 3D window, not in the 2D plan.