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everything in layout book locked

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:39:34 GMT

i'm using archicad 10, for some reason everything in the layout book is locked and i cant click on text in the masters or anything to change it.

all layers are turned on and unlocked.

Re: everything in layout book locked

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:53:39 GMT

Are the elements themselves locked? Is (or was) this a Teamwork file?

Re: everything in layout book locked

Djordje — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:45:22 GMT

Percy,

version, OS, machine? Please?

Are you in the layout view or the Master view?

Did you read the manual on Masters and Layouts?

Re: everything in layout book locked

Anonymous — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:16:36 GMT

archicad V10 (with latest update), windows XP 32bit, pentium 4 3Ghz, 2GB DDR2 ram.

it is not a teamwork file.

i've used layouts and layout books alot before in the past so am fully familiar with how it works.

all other models i've created are working fine on this computer but for some reason this new models layout book is broken.

when i say locked, what i mean is when i try and click on anything in the layout book on the main layout (such as text or viewports) it doesnt let me click on anything.

it is very annoying because it means i cant extract any drawings from a model that i have put alot of work into.

Re: everything in layout book locked

TomWaltz — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:14:57 GMT

Did you try merging it into another layout book, so you can copy the layouts you've made into a fresh file?

Also, what do you mean by "Main layout"?

Re: everything in layout book locked

Anonymous — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:22:56 GMT

Sounds like you placed the drawings directly on the master sheet and you are viewing a layout that references this master. So if this is the case the information on the master sheet can not be selected from the layout view that only references that master. The master information is a Mask or Ghost information and can only be selected by opening the master.

Re: everything in layout book locked

Anonymous — Thu, 31 May 2007 09:59:14 GMT

sorry i meant "master layout" not main layout.

i definetely havent placed info onto the master layout, i've done everything correctly (like i have done a million times before on previous archicad models) but for some reason this one is not working.

Re: everything in layout book locked

Ben Odonnell — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:11:18 GMT

I'm going to ask a silly question here.
Are you sure that you don't have grid snapping on?

Cheers.
Ben

Re: everything in layout book locked

Laura Yanoviak — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:15:23 GMT

Actually, that's a good question. Come-to-think-of-it, I had someone here who was unable to select anything in the Layout Book, and turned out she had snapping on (which was set at a 4'-0" grid), making everything within the Layout unselectable.

Re: everything in layout book locked

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:39:56 GMT

ben, thats exactly what the problem was! your a star. cheers bud.

Re: everything in layout book locked

Ben Odonnell — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:46:26 GMT

No problem.
Glad that I could help.

Cheers.
Ben

Re: everything in layout book locked

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:07:42 GMT

Having made the leap to a mac platform, I have had some minor bumps along the road.
This one was a major, and, once again, Architalk saved my day.
Thanks Ben.