topic Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout in Modeling

URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:28:04 GMT

n my layout book i cant select anything for some reason?? As if everything is locked or something???? any ideas?

It seems as tho the curser is stuck as the solid arrow with the tick.. sometimes with the Mercedes sign.. but totally random
I cant drag a marquee or anything??? :S

Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:32:18 GMT

cursers seem random actually.. they keep changing randomly.. but to nothign relevant.. i cant use the line tool and a few others.. like iv locked somethign ?? iv checked all teh layers etc.. there all on.

Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:04:57 GMT

Do you have grid snap ON in the layout ?
Peter Devlin

Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:11:55 GMT

bingo.. thanks for that
was stressing.. last day and the job needs to be sent out

Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Wokka — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:48:34 GMT

Peter,
Great catch!
I also just had a sleepless night thinking I had a corrupted file!
Thank god for Architalk search and Peter.
Now to reconfigure keystrokes. that 'S' is too easy to hit accidently. Who uses grid snap anyhow?
Cheers

Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Rod Jurich — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:47:42 GMT

Wokka wrote:
/.......Who uses grid snap anyhow?

All the time when dimensioning.
And set my keystroke for grid snap to "~"

Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:41:01 GMT

Hey Rod
How does grid-snap work for dimensioning?
Do you have a lot of even numbers in your projects?
I do exclusively remodels and seems like there's
not an even number anywhere.
So kinda curious.
Maybe I'm missing the obvious?

Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Rod Jurich — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:09:45 GMT

lec1212 wrote:
/.....
I do exclusively remodels /....

So do I both single and multi storey, though not exclusively.

lec1212 wrote:
How does grid-snap work for dimensioning?

Simple, place origin at project origin.
I set my grids to 1 metre primary and half metre secondary.
When placing dimension chain activate snap grid to half metre and place.

All dim chains then space neatly about project area.
If you move a chain again use snap grid to place, quite easy
The keystroke acts as a toggle on/off.

Re: URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:03:22 GMT

Rod
Thanks for the tip.
I'll have to play around with that
at some point here.