In my reply to the original post I found a workaround. And in six months, the problem didn't crop up again. Now it has, and the workaround does not work this time. I installed software updates. I uninstalled and reinstalled AutoCAD LT 2026 for Mac. I confirmed that PICKFIRST=1 and PICKADD=2.
In another post on the same topic, a reply to the OP suggested enabling a system variable monitor that would allow tracking exactly when the variables changed, in order to debug and reset. And further, that said monitor was not available in the LT versions. And admonished the OP for being a cheapskate and failing to upgrade to the full version.
Well -- I know exactly when the variables were reset. When I opened an AutoCAD file provided by a Civil Engineer and ran a Save As on it, rather than copying the vectors I needed to the clipboard and pasting them into a new file. Since I only find occasion to open consultants' files rarely, I had forgotten I needed to approach it that way.
Something else is happening here, since at no time that I saw were PICKFIRST or PICKADD set to anything other than 1 and 2, respectively.
I'm eternally grateful to Autodesk for continuing to make LT affordable. I am working on small residential projects. Annual income well into five figures. The right tool for the job -- I'm not trying to share my files with a team of people -- Im not an architect working on a mid-rise tower, or the airport, a stadium or hospital. I don't need the full-blown AutoCAD, much less Revit. I pass the savings along to homeowner clients.
AutoCAD user since 1986 and I can't deal with noun-verb selection being unavailable. Or selections always having to be a two-step process with a shift key or something, after 39 years of one way of doing it. I'm certain it's not Autodesk's position on the matter, that I can upgrade to the full version, or, tough luck.
Right?
