Pick box is rectangle not square (Crosshair box)

[NormsAUS]

I am often getting onto other PC's and finding that the crosshair pickbox (curser) is rectangle and not square.

I have looked in op (options) but no luck.

Any suggestions.

TIA 🙂

[sarchwba]

Out of curiosity would you mind activating it with Ctrl+9 and making sure it's docked to the bottom of the screen?  I mentioned F2 but that is a different command window.

I just turned off my command line and the glitch happened until I turned it back on.

[joehovarter]

At one time I had written a lisp to set the acad window to 1 or 2 pixels smaller than full screen. This would also fix it. I am having trouble finding it now but it probably wouldn’t specifically work for you anyway. 

Don’t be confused this has nothing to do with your screen resolution, this is an issue with application window size. And what area is left over for the actual drawing window.

[nrz13]

Turning on and docking the command line restores the correct pick box proportion as expected (as outlined in previous posts above).  Not a solution for me, though, since I don't use the command line.

I only mentioned the resolution because a common response in the posts above was to tell people they weren't running their screens at native resolution.  I'm well aware of this bug (and it is a bug).  It has been around forever, but I was just checking to see if there was anything new on it.

[RobDraw]

If it were an AutoCAD bug, then everyone could replicate it. Even my low end machine with an economy video card has a square pickbox.

I think you might be barking up the wrong tree.

[joehovarter]

That doesn’t make any sense. That’s like saying snow doesn’t exist because you live in Florida. The fact that it is hard to replicate doesn’t mean it’s not there.
I will say this again... it is specific to drawing area pixel size. Many things factor in how much area you have. What toolbars are open, comma line open or not, or how many lines of comma line are visible.
Back when I initially started seeing this I was using drawing tabs. The rectangle pickbox only showed up when two drawings were open. Meaning the tabs appeared shorting my drawing window height.

[RobDraw]

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@joehovarter wrote:
That’s like saying snow doesn’t exist because you live in Florida. 

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This is your mistake. We are using the same program, AutoCAD. The differences are in hardware.

Get it?

[joehovarter]

Are you serious right now? Troll somewhere else.

[joehovarter]

Steps to reproduce,

open ACAD and new drawing

with command line docked at bottom of screen, drag top of command line slightly to change its size in increments as small as possible. Took me one try, pickbox went rectangular. To reproduce a second time took me less than 10 tries.

See images, one shows a circle and a square, in the second the only thing that changes is the pickbox.

 

 

[RobDraw]

You're putting an awful lot of effort into something that has no significance whatsoever. It's a graphic glitch. BFD...

[nrz13]

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@RobDraw wrote:

I think you might be barking up the wrong tree.

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I'll be sure to report this problem on the Adobe user forums then.  😆

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@RobDraw wrote:

If it were an AutoCAD bug, then everyone could replicate it.

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Hey, Rob, you don't work for Microsoft, by chance do you?  This is a select "feature" for select users, right?  😆

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@RobDraw wrote:
This is your mistake. We are using the same program, AutoCAD. The differences are in hardware..

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Please do let us all know the one single hardware configuration AutoCAD is supposed to run on.  I missed that on the AutoCAD system requirements page.

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@RobDraw wrote:
You're putting an awful lot of effort into something that has no significance whatsoever. It's a graphic glitch. BFD....

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Heaven forfend that someone want to put effort into resolving a graphical glitch that's more than 2 decades old in a graphical-oriented program.  If it doesn't bother you, there's no need to chime in just to try to invalidate someone else's experience.  At least the work-around solutions to this bug posted here may be helpful to others with this problem.

[RobDraw]

You too?

Can't see the forest for the trees?

[joehovarter]

If it has no significance why are you still responding? This is simply an example of someone who can’t admit they are wrong and continues to project their opinion on others.
This isn’t a fluke. I can see it happening on my screen and the fact that others are posting seeing the same thing validates that.
It’s obvious you have nothing else to contribute so walk away.

[nrz13]

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@RobDraw wrote:

Can't see the forest for the trees?

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Just discussing a leaf at the moment...  Care to join us, or would you prefer to go back to the forest?

[RobDraw]

A funny thing happens when I make valid points that people don't like. They make it personal and tell me to go away instead of admitting that I do have a point. It's quite immature actually.

[joehovarter]

Well that's where you are wrong. You haven't made any point.

You are STILL putting an awful lot of effort in this.

[sarchwba]

Don't worry you're right.  He may not be trolling but he's not here to help either.

If he doesn't think that this is a bug because it can't be produced by every single user then there's no point in discussing it with him beyond that.

[RobDraw]

... and if you all refuse to realize that it could be a simple minor graphic glitch, I am wasting my time.

[joehovarter]

I would also like to add I was able to reproduce on AutoCAD 2021 for MAC by dragging the application window smaller from top to bottom.

[RobDraw]

Two different programs, same hardware. Things that make you say, "Hmmm..."

[joehovarter]

I’m not really sure why you would think a MAC would be same hardware. Replicated currently on desktop, laptop and now a MacBook Air.
Besides hardware is not the issue here and that’s been proven.
What exactly are your motives at this point?
Again, if you have no valid input, go away.