Help! My scale areas don't work anymore!

[acwtzwegers]

It has happened that my scale areas just stopped working... and it's practically THE reason to have acad Mechanical in the first place 😞

In AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 SP1, Windows 7, 64 bit, model space... on a recent install (got a new lt a week ago)

- I click scale area

- I get asked for first point

- I get asked for second point

- I get a red box in Model space

- cursor changes to arrow

- I wait a loooong while

- I press esc and end up with a red box, no scale area.

Filedia etc are all on 1, I tried alt-space, m etc, I just can't get any form of input into the scale area.

Help would be highly appreciated... I can't deal with regular old AutoAD viewports any more... they're messy and don't work as nicely parametrically. 🙂

[acwtzwegers]

I'll have to add that I can actually do a mview in paperspace

- then get the scale area interface that allows me to assign a "border"

- which I can link to the scale area red rectangle

But the model to paper functionality is actually that which is "le raison d'etre" of Mechanical 🙂

[acwtzwegers · Accepted solution]

I reset my AutoCAD to defaults using the handy shortcut in my start menu, reapplied the company customisations and it's all working fine again.

When/if ever I find out what caused it, I'll share that info.