Left click and drag with mouse produces selection box instead of moving parts in assembly

[sthomasBEF9X]

Hello,

I must have pressed a button that changed my selection properties in Inventor. When I go to move a part in an assembly that is unground and unconstrained, my mouse only creates a selection box instead of actually grabbing and moving the part. When I opened up a different assembly file the problem did not persist. Any ideas on what button I pressed or what setting I have to change? Thanks

[sthomasBEF9X]

So I relaunched Inventor and the ability to click and drag parts went back to normal. However, I'm still curious as to what key I need to press to reverse this in the future should it happen again.

[mcgyvr]

Likely just a selection filter was enabled that you weren't aware of....

[sthomasBEF9X]

Okay, that must have been it. I wasn't aware that was where the selection filters were. I switched to Inventor from Solidworks pretty recently, so haven't quite located all of the features yet. Thanks for the help!

[JDMather]

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@sthomasBEF9X wrote:

 I wasn't aware that was where the selection filters were. 

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You can also get to the selection filters with Shift Right Mouse button.

[sthomasBEF9X]

Thank you for letting me know the hotkey. I am certain that I inadvertently activated the filter by doing this as I tend to move a bit too quickly.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I am trying to reproduce the behavior but I cannot seem to do it. One thing you may want to check is the mouse. I had a bad mouse (sticky buttons). It exhibited the same behavior before. When I left-clicked, it seemed to right-click also, leading to a lot of confusion. I thought it was Win 10 related. A new mouse fixed the issue.

Many thanks!