AC 16 Quick selection tool in 3d window

[Anonymous]

Working in 16,

Quick Selection tool (magnet icon) doesn't work in 3d window like version 15, 14, 13, 12,...

Space bar activates it in 2d.

What am I missing?

Clicking on a surface in 3d to select an object, rather than just the edge or node. How is it done in 16?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I must say I am not confident this will be fixed, as kikoskiki noted, this seems to be by design. My question is 'why?' Why take away a very useful feature of the selection tool by design? Is this an internal coding issue in AC16? Just seems weird (and annoying). Don't mean to be too whiny, but I really want my magnet back!

Love the program in general though!

[Katalin Takacs]

To restore the Quick Selection function in Hidden Line display mode is an existing request in our defect database (#141137). We added your remarks to that issue.

Thanks for your comments.

[Anonymous]

Had the same problem out of nothing. What I did was opened a new empty project file. Entered 3D mode (magnet was OK), then went back to plan view hit File --> File special ---> merge. Navigated to my file and merged. Vualia - it's working again

[Katalin Takacs]

Hi miniwen,

Thanks for the tip.

Further info: the fix for this issue has been released with ArchiCAD 17.