Polyline Editing

[Anonymous]

I have Autocad Lt 2010, I used to be able to double click on a polyline and the pedit would appear at the cursor point.

All of a sudden it has stopped and nothing appears and I now have to go to the properties to edit the polyline. Any thoughts?

[pendean]

Did you turn off PICKFIRST variable?

Or did you load a new screen CUI menu file and it has something else defined for double-clicking Plines?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the response

Pickfirst is set at (1)

And I didn't load a new a new menu file

[pendean]

What is double-clicking a pline set to in your CUI?

Do yhou have the double click function turned on?

[Anonymous]

Double clicking is set to Pedit and it is turned on.

The Pedit options shows up in my text in the scroll window but I'm missing the same options that used to show up in a cursor window. Doing it one way for 3 years, you can appreciate how frustrating it is to change a simple method of doing something.

[pendean]

Are you sure you are double-clicking on a Pline? LIST command and find out.

For example, the pop-up list gets shorter if you double-click on a Spline.

[Bob.Felton · Accepted solution]

Mike, check the value for DYNMODE. Try setting it to 3, especially if it shows '-3'.

I just tested that in LT 2010 and with DYNMODE set to -3, PEDIT shows its options on the command line. With it set to 3, you get the PEDIT options on screen at the cursor position.

[Anonymous]

Genius, That was it.

I don't know how that got changed.

Thank -you very much.

[Anonymous]

Hi Bob,

Well it happened again I hjave lost the cursor window for pedit. It was right after  I did a drawing recovery.

But Dynmode is still set to 3

[Anonymous]

Wow thank you, that worked for me :)))) Weeeeee!!! Simple as that, I have no idea what I did but it works. Thanks for your help 🙂

[Charles_Shade]

Setting DYNMODE to 3 turns on input at both the Pointer (Cursor) and when certain keystrokes (a comma say for a vector or a < say for an angle) are made. 

Setting this to 3 allowed your input to be where you expected it. Likely it was off

DYNPROMPT is a related Variable.