Cannot specify base (or other) points by clicking on drawing (AutoCAD Mac 2023)

[ashkaldun]

I started getting this problem yesterday after having purchase a monthly  subscription to AutoCAD for Mac a few days earlier. I'm working on a large drawing for a power plant. (MacBook Air, M2, 2022, 16GB RAM)

The screenshot below is my cursor after having given the command to copy an object with a base point. When I click to specify the point, nothing at all happens - it doesn't specify the point - it just sits there as is. This same malfunction happens if I create a circle with the "c space" command. And with other commands.

When this happens, the only way that I can specify the point is to input coordinates. I click away all over the place - nothing happens.

I know the trackpad works because it's working with a bunch of other AutoCAD functions.

Seems to me like a bug.

Any help would be welcome.

Thanks so much.

[paullimapa]

perhaps troubleshoot by plugging in a mouse just to be sure it's not your trackpad causing the problem.

also may want to post in mac forum:

AutoCAD for Mac Forum - Autodesk Community

[ashkaldun]

I’m working on a large layout of a power plant. I purchased AutoCAD on a monthly subscription about a week ago and everything was working fine. This problem started yesterday.

If I’m in model space there are several situations that I cannot specify a point by just clicking on that point. For example, if I want to copy an object with a base point, or draw a circle or a line and I enter the command, AutoCAD asks to specify the initial point (see screen shots). But when I try to enter that point by clicking at a certain location, nothing happens at all, and the curser with its text just remains as if I haven’t done anything.

But it’s a bit erratic. If I want to copy a circle with a base point, although I cannot just click anywhere for that base point, I can click on the handle in the center of the circle and the command executes normally. But if I click on any of the handles at the quadrants nothing happens. Likewise, if the center has been specified as the base point, and I then paste that circle into the drawing, although the circle appears around the cursor as you would expect, I cannot just click anywhere in the drawing , or click to any OSNAP point to specify the insertion point- in these cases nothing at all happens. The only way I am able to specify the insertion point is to enter coordinates by hand.

I’ve tried with a bunch of different layers - same results.

The cursor/click works fine in paper space to specify points.

Looks like a bug to me, but I don’t have a lot of experience with AutoCAD.

Is there maybe some setting that I could adjust to fix this?

The software and operating system are up-to-date. I’ve restarted the laptop, and AutoCAD.

Thanks so much.

(MacBook Air, M2, 2022, 16GB RAM)

[maxim_k · Accepted solution]

Hi @ashkaldun ,

Do you have this problem in all of your drawings? Even in newly created?

Or is it just one particular drawing?

Have you tried to relaunch AutoCAD? Restart your Mac?

[maxim_k]

@ashkaldun 

What do you see in AutoCAD Command window when you "click anywhere for that base point"?

Is it only in one drawing?

If yes, can you share it here?

[ashkaldun]

Thanks All - looks like the problem only occurred on that one file, so I just started a new one and so far so good.