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Odd looking Cursor in Revit

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:41:16 GMT

I have this really weird Cursor appear on me randomly when working in Revit (see Image)

Anyone else have this happen to them? anyone know why it does this or how get my regular cursor back?

We are using Revit 2018.3

Re: Odd looking Cursor in Revit

Corsten.Au — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 02:07:05 GMT

when does it appears? in any particular command you are in /active?

Re: Odd looking Cursor in Revit

ennujozlagam — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 02:11:31 GMT

hello, try to untick use hardware acceleration and install latest updates from autodesk and update your graphics card driver to the latest and see if helps. thanks

Re: Odd looking Cursor in Revit

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:44:41 GMT

We run Revit with Hardware acceleration turned off for the most part, unless we are using point clouds or something.

As for the graphics card it is up-to-date, I always make sure everything is updated.

It doesn't happen with any particular command or action it just sorta appears randomly and wont go away.

Re: Odd looking Cursor in Revit

Kelsey.S — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:50:21 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Could you make a Screencast capturing this issue to share with the community?

I would recommend that you update Revit software to the latest build as needed. See: How to tie the Build number with the Revit update

Next, with Revit closed, clear user temp directory. Revit uses this directory and when it gets too bloated, Revit performance can be impacted or other unexpected behaviors. So first close Revit and your other applications. Then in Windows File Explorer, type %TEMP% for the path. Select all and delete. SKIP any files that Windows doesn't want to delete.

You could also test disabling add-ins to see if that resolves the issue. See: How to disable add-ins for Revit

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Re: Odd looking Cursor in Revit

Kelsey.S — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:30:03 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

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Thank you!