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Object tool locked

KeesW
Advocate
A strange problem. My object tool in AC23 toolbox won't allow me to select anything other than a flue object I chose earlier. Can't access any of the tools in my extra libraries such as those from the Ci Essential Library. Yet, when I select a window, door, cabinets, etc etc from AC23 toolbox it gives me the usual access to these additional libraries. So it must be loaded correctly. I've placed a call to Ci Help desk and another this morning but they are probably too busy. Hence this note to users.
Cornelis (Kees) Wegman

cornelis wegman architects
AC 5 - 26 Dell XPS 8940 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD 2TB HD RTX 3070 GPU
Laptop: AC 24 - 26 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD RTX 3070 GPU
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Lingwisyer
Guru
Click the small down arrow to the left of the object name.



Ling.

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KeesW
Advocate
Thank you Ling. That is very subtle, Isn't it! How did you find it? I don't remember that being there in older versions of AC because it always worked as expected.
Cornelis (Kees) Wegman

cornelis wegman architects
AC 5 - 26 Dell XPS 8940 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD 2TB HD RTX 3070 GPU
Laptop: AC 24 - 26 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD RTX 3070 GPU
Barry Kelly
Moderator
It has been there quite a while.
I just opened 18 and it was there too.

It is one of those frustrating settings, that because you would hardly ever use it, when you do accidentally switch it off, you have no idea how to switch it back on.
And being so small an icon doesn't help either.


Barry.
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Lingwisyer
Guru
I just noticed it in your screenshot, and I suspect I may have run into this issue before too. Given there is no other way to change your selected object, excluding favourites, this collapse feature seems rather pointless...



Ling.

AC22-23 AUS 7000Help Those Help You - Add a Signature
Self-taught, bend it till it breaksCreating a Thread
Win11 | i9 10850K | 64GB | RX6600 Win10 | R5 2600 | 16GB | GTX1660