AutoCAD - Command line always says "specify opposite corner"
Accepted solution
Same response as @pendean wrote...
You must be unaware of clicking in the drawing window. When you click in the drawing window with no active command or icon click you will get the beginning of a selection window. AutoCAD is simply asking you to complete the selection window.
Blaine Young
Senior Engineering Technician, US Army
@arch.david.abdelmalak wrote:
Please help, I have the same issue and I can't using AutoCAD.
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What happens when you use what has already been suggested? [Don't just pick in the drawing area without a command active unless you want to select things in the window it is asking you to complete; or if your mouse is somehow doing that for you, get a new mouse.]
Kent Cooper, AIA 
@arch.david.abdelmalak wrote:
Cannot move the cursor into AutoCAD window, I open up the program and my part opens up and shows the crosshairs cursor, move for 1 or 2 seconds and then the cursor freezes. The mouse is in the background.
Also, the command line says "specify opposite corner or [Fence/WPolygon/CPolygon]", even though I click on blank spaces and I haven't selected a command, so I don't know why that legend appears, could you help me to solve this because its really annoying, and I can't work.
Do you have Snap [positional or grid Snap, not Object Snap] set to a large value, so that the cursor location snaps to positions outside the view area? If that's the cause, F9 turns that off, and will let the cursor float freely.
Don't click on blank spaces when you haven't selected a command, except when you want to pre-select objects in a window. That prompt is asking for the other corner of the window for which you gave it the first corner by picking in an empty area.
Kent Cooper, AIA
Hi,
After a restart of your PC/Laptop, open up AutoCAD and allow everything to happen as you described (crosshairs appear then command line prompt for opposite corner). No additional clicking or typing in any other window or desktop space. Simply watch the lower right corner near your system clock and observe if any mouse messages come up.
At this point press your ESC key on your keyboard.
Does the prompt for "opposite corner" go away and display "Command:"?
If so, you should be able to work normally at this point. Unsure what is initiating a click whilst AutoCAD is starting.
If not, your mouse may have lost focus from AutoCAD and you need to click back in the ACAD window, then hit ESC. Not sure what series of clicks may be happening to initiate a window then lose focus to another place on your PC.
Just so you understand that anytime you click a spot in the ACAD drawing screen area without any command active AutoCAD treats it like a selection window. Many user pre-select objects in ACAD and then initiate commands... an efficient workflow for many users.
Keep us up to date on your findings.
Blaine
Blaine Young
Senior Engineering Technician, US Army
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