"locking object" ?

[Anonymous]

I am working on creating a siteplan (for a development), in which I had a third party company draw a preliminary design for me, I've taken their DWG file and imported it into ArchiCAD, and then taken a scan of their colourized print and overlayed it so I can see what's going on in more detail, to make a long storey short, is there any way to make a figure unselectable, so I'm not constantly wearing clicking on the figure when I'm doing things like draging a selection marquee, etc..

cheers
dan

[Anonymous]

Alone on a lock layer…

[Anonymous]

maybe a bit too simple

cheers,
dan

[TomWaltz]

Daniel wrote:
I am working on creating a siteplan (for a development), in which I had a third party company draw a preliminary design for me, I've taken their DWG file and imported it into ArchiCAD, and then taken a scan of their colourized print and overlayed it so I can see what's going on in more detail, to make a long storey short, is there any way to make a figure unselectable, so I'm not constantly wearing clicking on the figure when I'm doing things like draging a selection marquee, etc..

cheers
dan

Select it. Tools > Lock will loc that element, regardless of layer settings.

[Anonymous]

Yeess

It is great, I learn every day.
I had never paid attention to this function.

[Anonymous]

hmmm maybe I was righ tin my sarcasm.... neither of these options actually work, the object is still selectable, just not changable, I want to make it so that you cannot select the object at all... is there something simple im missing again or something else all together.

cheers,
dan

[Djordje]

Daniel wrote:
hmmm maybe I was righ tin my sarcasm.... neither of these options actually work, the object is still selectable, just not changable, I want to make it so that you cannot select the object at all... is there something simple im missing again or something else all together.

Nothing will happen to it even if it shows selection dots.

Put it on a different storey and use Ghost.

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
Put it on a different storey and use Ghost.

Does Ghost works with figure ?

[Djordje]

Fmr wrote:

Djordje wrote:
Put it on a different storey and use Ghost.

Does Ghost works with figure ?

Yep; by default it shows only a placeholder.

[Anonymous]

Daniel,
Do you use "Magnet selection"?
If you disabled this kind of selection, the figure can only be selected by their hotspots.