topic Re: Blue Dots Randomly Appeared and can't be Selected in AutoCAD Forum

Blue Dots Randomly Appeared and can't be Selected

alyssa7NK38 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:53:22 GMT

These blue dots randomly appeared one day when after I opened the file - no previous flags had gone off that the file became corrupt, no crashes, etc. I can't select the markings and if I move the drawings, it just moves with them. I've tried saving as a new file and copying into a new template, to no avail.

Re: Blue Dots Randomly Appeared and can't be Selected

imadHabash — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:57:26 GMT

Hi,

Try to disable hardware acceleration from GRAPHICSCONFIG command .

Re: Blue Dots Randomly Appeared and can't be Selected

paullimapa — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:02:58 GMT

What version of AutoCAD?

try setting Gfxdx12 to 0 then close and restart AutoCAD to see if that makes a difference

Re: Blue Dots Randomly Appeared and can't be Selected

alyssa7NK38 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:10:05 GMT

That mostly worked, thank you! The outline of the circle is still there but the but at least the drawings can be worked on and seen now.

Re: Blue Dots Randomly Appeared and can't be Selected

pendean — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:18:37 GMT

@alyssa7NK38 wrote:
That mostly worked, thank you! The outline of the circle is still there but the but at least the drawings can be worked on and seen now.

1) Have you installed the 2022.1.5 / 2023.1.6 / 2024.1.6 / 2025.1.1 Update yet? I listed them all since you don't appear to have shared that information. ABOUT command in your AutoCAD will confirm what you have installed. If not, get it from your Autodesk Account Page here https://manage.autodesk.com/cep/#products-services/updates
Restart your PC afterwards please.

2) Also consider turning off LINESMOOTHING and LINEFADING variables: if still no relief then start GRAPHICSCONFIG command and change the 2D Display Settings pulldown from "advanced mode" to one of the other choices.

3) If all else fails, then turn off Hardware Acceleration as a last resort, see if that helps.