Space bar not bringing up the magic wand on Mac ?

[mthd]

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 ?

[Lee Hankins]

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. 

[mthd]

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.

[Barry Kelly]

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.

[mthd]

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.

[Barry Kelly]

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.

[Lee Hankins]

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.