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Space bar not bringing up the magic wand on Mac ?

mthd
Advisor

Hi, I am running AC24 and the space bar brings up the magic wand on my Windows PC but it will not work on my Mac for some reason ?

 

I am using the Apple magic keyboard for m1 Mac machine, anybody know what I need to do to get the magic wand to come up with the space bar ?

AC7 EDU & AC8.1 - AC26 + Ci Tools
Apple Mac Studio M1 Max Chip CPU 10C
GPU 24C 7.8TF 32GB RAM OS Monterey
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Lee Hankins
Mentor

It will work if you restart Archicad. We’ve had this issue with various macs in our office both MacBooks and iMacs and Intel or arm based. Support are aware but we can’t find what causes it to stop working. 

Lee Hankins
ArchiCAD 4.5 - Archicad 26UKI Apple Silicon 5003
macOS Ventura (13.4)

Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me on my system whether I restart Archicad 24 or not. I also tested it on AC25 & 26 demo versions and it still wouldn’t work for me. 

 

I can still use the magic wand from the drop down design menu for now.

AC7 EDU & AC8.1 - AC26 + Ci Tools
Apple Mac Studio M1 Max Chip CPU 10C
GPU 24C 7.8TF 32GB RAM OS Monterey

I don't have a Mac, so not sure of a solution.

But it sounds to me that you have another program running that is 'high-jacking' the spacebar shortcut.

I have no idea what it might be, but can you stop all other applications (especially those running in the background) and have just Archicad running.

 

Barry.


One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 25
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Dell Precision 3510 - i7 6820HQ @ 2.70GHz, 16GB RAM, AMD FirePro W5130M, Windows 10

mthd
Advisor

I don’t have any problems with it working on my windows machine but you could be right because I used a MS keyboard and it still wouldn’t work.

AC7 EDU & AC8.1 - AC26 + Ci Tools
Apple Mac Studio M1 Max Chip CPU 10C
GPU 24C 7.8TF 32GB RAM OS Monterey

I was doing a little searching and it seems Macs do have their own operating system shortcuts.

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/My-magnet-stopped-working/m-p/214618/highlight/true#M11...

 

 

It also seems restarting the machine fixes it, but sometimes it comes back.

That makes me think even more that it is another application blocking the spacebar shortcut.

 

Barry.


One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 25
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Dell Precision 3510 - i7 6820HQ @ 2.70GHz, 16GB RAM, AMD FirePro W5130M, Windows 10

it could be something to do with he spacebar being a shortcut for both Quickview and activating Spotlight on the Mac. It could be conflicting with Archicad.

Lee Hankins
ArchiCAD 4.5 - Archicad 26UKI Apple Silicon 5003
macOS Ventura (13.4)

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