URGENT - cant select anything in my layout

[Anonymous]

n my layout book i cant select anything for some reason?? As if everything is locked or something???? any ideas?

It seems as tho the curser is stuck as the solid arrow with the tick.. sometimes with the Mercedes sign.. but totally random
I cant drag a marquee or anything??? :S

[Anonymous]

cursers seem random actually.. they keep changing randomly.. but to nothign relevant.. i cant use the line tool and a few others.. like iv locked somethign ?? iv checked all teh layers etc.. there all on.

[Anonymous]

Do you have grid snap ON in the layout ?
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

bingo.. thanks for that
was stressing.. last day and the job needs to be sent out

[Wokka]

Peter,
Great catch!
I also just had a sleepless night thinking I had a corrupted file!
Thank god for Architalk search and Peter.
Now to reconfigure keystrokes. that 'S' is too easy to hit accidently. Who uses grid snap anyhow?
Cheers

[Rod Jurich]

Wokka wrote:
/.......Who uses grid snap anyhow?

All the time when dimensioning.
And set my keystroke for grid snap to "~"

[Anonymous]

Hey Rod
How does grid-snap work for dimensioning?
Do you have a lot of even numbers in your projects?
I do exclusively remodels and seems like there's
not an even number anywhere.
So kinda curious.
Maybe I'm missing the obvious?

[Rod Jurich]

lec1212 wrote:
/.....
I do exclusively remodels /....

So do I both single and multi storey, though not exclusively.

lec1212 wrote:
How does grid-snap work for dimensioning?

Simple, place origin at project origin.
I set my grids to 1 metre primary and half metre secondary.
When placing dimension chain activate snap grid to half metre and place.

All dim chains then space neatly about project area.
If you move a chain again use snap grid to place, quite easy
The keystroke acts as a toggle on/off.

[Anonymous]

Rod
Thanks for the tip.
I'll have to play around with that
at some point here.