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Cant select objects

u2144305 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:44:09 GMT

For some reason i cant select objects for reason i the layers are not locked. I tried the PICKADD options .

Re: Cant select objects

u2144305 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:47:17 GMT

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Re: Cant select objects

paullimapa — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:32:38 GMT

would you share your dwg?

Re: Cant select objects

Patchy — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:42:15 GMT

Thaw and On your layer 0

Defpoints layer works that way.

Re: Cant select objects

pendean — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:58:33 GMT

Re: Cant select objects

TomBeauford — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:08:12 GMT

The defpoints layer is only for leader nodes definition points and should never be used for drawing objects.

Re: Cant select objects

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:15:59 GMT

Follow @TomBeauford's advice in Message 6, and you can Search for more discussion about this. If you want something to not Plot, make a non-Plotting Layer for it, with a name that means something related to what it's about.

But to elaborate a little bit: When Layer "0" is either off or frozen [or both], objects on Layer "DEFPOINTS" cannot be selected, nor can you Object-Snap to locations on them.

Re: Cant select objects

javier.zavala — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:17:41 GMT

Check the object selection settings. Type "options" in the command line and go to the "Selection" tab. Make sure "Noun/verb selection" is enabled and "Pickfirst" is set to 1

Re: Cant select objects

cranetechmike — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 13:27:17 GMT

I had a similar problem, and I did <CTRL> A to select all, and manually deselected my visible objects, then deleted the remaining objects. That fixed my problem.