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Selection cycling not cycling visually

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Selection cycling not cycling visually

Anonymous
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So I have my AutoCAD (using Architecture 2016) set up with the old-school selection cycling, where you hold CTRL and pick overlapping objects to start selection cycling. It's supposed to work by showing the selected object as dashed, and then with each left click, the next available object will appear dashed, etc.

 

For some reason, it only shows one object dashed, and that one stays dashed. It does not visually cycle through the objects. But it does invisibly cycle through the objects. So if I go to erase something, and hold down CTRL and pick 2 overlapping objects, one will appear dashed, then I can left click once to select the other object, and then right click to make that one erase...but that object never appears dashed. It's basically a guessing game if I have more than 2 overlapping objects. 

 

Anyone know how to fix this? I just want it to work the way I've always known it to work. I just want each left click to highlight a different object.

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Contacted Dell, they can't figure it out. They told me to contact Nvidia. 

 

Thanks to everyone trying to help though.

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OK, so I had to buy an adapter so I could plug my monitor into the Nvidia card, and now AutoCAD is running on that card.

 

That still didn't fix my issue. I have noticed that this issue (not visually cycling) only seems to happen with the ERASE command. If I cycle using the TRIM or EXTEND command, it cycles just fine. But if I try to erase something, I don't get the visual cycling...which is the command I use most often with the CTRL-cycling, because I'm trying to erase the unnecessary overlapping objects.