topic Re: Magic wand tool not working archicad 26 &27!! in Modeling

Magic wand tool not working archicad 26 &27!!

Georgia_Eloise — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:28:59 GMT

Hey, I am trying to make a mesh for a site like I normally do using contour lines and adding them to a mesh with the magic wand tool using spacebar, however on both archicad 26 and 27 I am not able to use the magic wand tool. I run MacOS with apple M2 chip and currently with Sonoma 14.3.

Previously when I had this issue, a simple shut down and restart of mac and archicad would solve it, but not anymore.

I have also tried assigning different keys to the magic wand tool, with no success.

Any advice is much appreciated, otherwise I'm looking into trying to learn a new software - which is not going to be fun....or help get my uni project done quickly!

Re: Magic wand tool not working archicad 26 &27!!

Mahmoud Qenawi — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:38:06 GMT

Hi @Georgia_Eloise,

regarding magic wand, you can activate its function by other ways, did you try all ways and nothing working with you?

Re: Magic wand tool not working archicad 26 &27!!

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 21:54:07 GMT

It works fine for me in Archicad 27.

Can you give a specific example when it does not work for you? I tried it with Lines, Circles, Polylines, Splines, both when they are inside the Mesh polygon or when they overlap its boundary, and it works in all cases.

Re: Magic wand tool not working archicad 26 &27!!

cocoloco — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:06:50 GMT

magic wand never worked for me by pressing space on Macbook , ever. But it works if i click on the tool. So I moved it into toolbar so it's handy... I don't use it often, so toolbar is enough.

Re: Magic wand tool not working archicad 26 &27!!

Barry Kelly — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:21:22 GMT

You could have some other program or app running that is hijacking your shortcuts.

I am not a Mac user, so have no idea where to start looking.

But this has been a problem for others in the past.

Barry.