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Drag Command has different prompts in different projects, not able to freely move

Hello!

 

I recently ran into a little bit of a discrepancy in ArchiCAD. I have always activated the drag command, and used my mouse to "point" or specify the axis I want to drag my object, type in a distance, and then it moves it a set distance. 

 

Recently, I have activated the drag command and it is locked into this XYZ palette, I cannot drag and type. When I do, the object doesn't move the specified distance correctly because its locked into the x axis line. I attached two screenshots of this. I am sure a setting is just turned on, but I cannot find it.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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Operating system used: Windows 11 24H2

  

Archicad 27-28, Windows 11 Pro, NVIDIA RTX 5090, AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor - 4.30 GHz, 96.0 GB
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CosminF
Expert

You may have toggled cartesian coordinates on by pressing Slash (/).

press it again to switch back to polar (distance/ angle) on the tracker.

Cosmin Furdui - architect @ Wincon
AC 27, running on Windows 11 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K CPU64, 3.40GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX5060 32GB

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CosminF
Expert

You may have toggled cartesian coordinates on by pressing Slash (/).

press it again to switch back to polar (distance/ angle) on the tracker.

Cosmin Furdui - architect @ Wincon
AC 27, running on Windows 11 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K CPU64, 3.40GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX5060 32GB

That's it! Thanks! I knew it had to be something very simple.

Archicad 27-28, Windows 11 Pro, NVIDIA RTX 5090, AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor - 4.30 GHz, 96.0 GB

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