Right click not supported anymore?

[Anonymous]

Is using a right click on the mouse to access a shortcut menu (osnaps) supported in 2006?
Mine does nothing when I right click during a command such as move.

Chad

[Anonymous]

Chad,

There is a know issue with the osnaps menu coming up with a right-click in
Acade 2006. I have attached a document that give steps on working around
this.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Steve

wrote in message news:4861741@discussion.autodesk.com...
Is using a right click on the mouse to access a shortcut menu (osnaps)
supported in 2006?
Mine does nothing when I right click during a command such as move.

Chad

[Anonymous]

Steve,
I followed your instructions, but still have no right click menu.
I will check what I did later today, I am beginning to think it is a setting somewhere.
A right click does nothing - no menu at all.

Chad

[Anonymous]

Chad,

You might change the 'Options' dialog, 'User Preferences' tab. There is an
option here, 'Shortcut menus in drawing area' that when toggled off there
will be no right-click menus.

If the option is toggled on, you might check the setting under the
'Right-click Customization...' button

Steve

wrote in message news:4863196@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steve,
I followed your instructions, but still have no right click menu.
I will check what I did later today, I am beginning to think it is a setting
somewhere.
A right click does nothing - no menu at all.

Chad

[Anonymous]

I tried your workaround for the short cut menus, it worked great. However, I still have an issue where some of the time when I right-click in the middle of a command (thinking it will do an Enter for me) I get the Electrical shortcut menu instead. I have always been an avid user of the right click functions and this little bug is a huge annoyance to me.

I am a first time user of ACAD Electrical so maybe I have something set wrong?

My settings in Right-Click customization are:
Default - Repeast last command
Edit - Enter
Command - Enter

[Anonymous]

Steve,
I must have done something wrong the first time.
I went back and followed the steps again and it works now.

Thanks for the help!!

Chad

[Anonymous]

Kevin,
I belive this was a bug in earlier versions of ACADE.
I cant remember for sure but i think if you hit the enter key it will change the menu to the non ACADE version.

Hope this helps.

Chad

[Anonymous]

Kevin,

I am not seeing this issue, but maybe it is related to certain commands that
you are running. Which commands are you seeing this behavior in? I have
tried it with both Acade commands (Insert Wire, Edit Component, etc) and
straight AutoCAD commands (line, pline, erase, etc).

I have also attached a graphic showing my Right-Click Customization
settings.

Steve



wrote in message news:4873342@discussion.autodesk.com...
I tried your workaround for the short cut menus, it worked great. However, I
still have an issue where some of the time when I right-click in the middle
of a command (thinking it will do an Enter for me) I get the Electrical
shortcut menu instead. I have always been an avid user of the right click
functions and this little bug is a huge annoyance to me.

I am a first time user of ACAD Electrical so maybe I have something set
wrong?

My settings in Right-Click customization are:
Default - Repeast last command
Edit - Enter
Command - Enter

[Anonymous]

I checked my Right Click customizations and they are set as per your jpg file.

This issue is infrequent, I can work in AutoCAD for several minutes with no problems and then it will just start happening. I might be editing a line, editing text, drawing lines or moving objects. I can't find a common denominator for it. I use the shortcut commands almost entirely, for example, I enter a Z for zoom, right click the mouse to Enter the command and then enter a W for window and right click again. Some of the time it works ok, most of the time I get the Electrical Shortcut menu instead of performing the Enter function.

I tried hitting the Enter key and it does close the Electrical Shortcut menu, but then I have to hit the Enter key again to get the command to input into AutoCAD.

This is very frustrating, am about ready to turn ACAD 2006 off and go back to 2000 until a fix is found.

[Anonymous]

Kevin,

I think I see what you are seeing now. If your crosshairs are over an
AutoCAD Electrical object, like a symbol or a wire, at the time you hit the
right-click you will get the Electrical shortcut menu. When the right-click
it hit, it looks to see what is under the crosshairs, and if it is an
Electrical object(symbol, wire, wire number, etc) the shortcut menu will
appear.

When you hit the right-click just place the crosshairs in a blank area of
the drawing and see if this solves the issue.

Steve

wrote in message news:4877208@discussion.autodesk.com...
I checked my Right Click customizations and they are set as per your jpg
file.

This issue is infrequent, I can work in AutoCAD for several minutes with no
problems and then it will just start happening. I might be editing a line,
editing text, drawing lines or moving objects. I can't find a common
denominator for it. I use the shortcut commands almost entirely, for
example, I enter a Z for zoom, right click the mouse to Enter the command
and then enter a W for window and right click again. Some of the time it
works ok, most of the time I get the Electrical Shortcut menu instead of
performing the Enter function.

I tried hitting the Enter key and it does close the Electrical Shortcut
menu, but then I have to hit the Enter key again to get the command to input
into AutoCAD.

This is very frustrating, am about ready to turn ACAD 2006 off and go back
to 2000 until a fix is found.

[Anonymous]

Looks like you guessed correctly. Thanks for the help, knowing the reason for the problem makes it much easier to work around.

However, it appears that the Electrical Shortcut menu appears anytime the crosshairs are over an object, whether its an electrical object or not. The only way I have been able to consistently make the right click work is to always right click in an open area of the screen.

Is this a bug or was it planned this way?

[Anonymous]

A lot of objects are considered Acade object. About all if not all lines on
a drawing will be an Acade object, but polylines are not. In the case of
blocks I think it depends on which attributes are on the block on whether it
is an Acade object of not. Objects like circles and arcs should not bring
up the Acade shortcut when you are over them and right-click.

If you are seeing other behavior, let me know and I can look into this more
and see if there is an issue here with maybe a specific setting on the
options dialog.

Steve

wrote in message news:4884495@discussion.autodesk.com...
Looks like you guessed correctly. Thanks for the help, knowing the reason
for the problem makes it much easier to work around.

However, it appears that the Electrical Shortcut menu appears anytime the
crosshairs are over an object, whether its an electrical object or not. The
only way I have been able to consistently make the right click work is to
always right click in an open area of the screen.

Is this a bug or was it planned this way?