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Layout Book Pages seem to be Locked?

Anonymous
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Not sure how this happened, but I am now unable to do any work on my layout book sheets.

I can't select any of the drawings, nor can I add any text, lines, objects, etc.

IS there a key I may have accidently hit that triggers this?
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Anonymous
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goose724 wrote:
Not sure how this happened, but I am now unable to do any work on my layout book sheets.

I can't select any of the drawings, nor can I add any text, lines, objects, etc.

IS there a key I may have accidently hit that triggers this?


just a guess .. is it possible that it is on the master layout ?
Anonymous
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No its actualy drawings that I have placed on them (over 50 sheets, multiple drawings per sheet) and that I have freely moved around up until about an hour ago.

Further, I can't add anything to them, such as text, lines, fills, etc.
Anonymous
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And it's a .pln file, not a teamworkfile?
goose724 wrote:
No its actualy drawings that I have placed on them (over 50 sheets, multiple drawings per sheet) and that I have freely moved around up until about an hour ago.

Further, I can't add anything to them, such as text, lines, fills, etc.
Thomas Holm
Booster
Check that you haven't turned on Grid Snap (S key)
AC4.1-AC26SWE; MacOS13.5.1; MP5,1+MBP16,1
Anonymous
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It is a teamwork file, but I am signed in as the Team Leader with Exclusive Access and have been since before the problem started.
Anonymous
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Sounds like a bug or something like that if you have logged in with exclusive rights.

First, check Thomas Holm's tip!

Then:
You haven't split layouts from projectfile?

What icon do you have in front of your layout? Could you take a screenshot?

What happens if you create a new layout, is that locked too? And if not, is it locked when you sign in next time?
Anonymous
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Seems to have been just a bug.

I shut down my computer and restarted it and now all is fine!

Thanks for the reply's.
goose724 wrote:
Seems to have been just a bug.
Your snap was on.
MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max, 96 GB of RAM
AC27 US (5003) on Mac OS Ventura 13.6.2
Started on AC4.0 in 91/92/93; full-time user since AC8.1 in 2004

Well, I have been using  Archicad for years and so it surprised me to find a problem I have never experienced before. So I basically could not adjust adjust drawings in layouts. After long time of trying and googling, your advice helped!

Cheers!

S.