Selection Box
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I am using the newest free version of SketchUp 7. For some reason the selection box (Solid line selector from left to right or the dashed selector from right to left as in AutoCad) does not show up. Is there some place in the preferences menu to turn it on? I am pulling my hair out trying to find it.
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I will try to elaborate. In AutoCad when you have an object on the screen you want to select it, you drag the mouse from the left to right a blue box appears and a green one appears when you drag from right to left.
In SketchUp when you want to select something pulling from left to right a solid lined box appears (or supposed to in my case) and a dashed box when pulled right to left. For some reason this box does not appear on my screen. When I drag my selection arrow over an object it still selects lines, faces, components, etc, but the selecting box is not on the screen. I'm not sure if I turned something off in the preference menu or some other place.
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As a test, try going window->preferences->openGL and turn off hardware acceleration.
If that works, try getting the latest drivers for your videocard and then turn hardware acceleration back on.
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Thank you very much,
Turning off hardware acceleration solved the problem until I can figure out if it is a video card or mouse configuration issue. thanks again!
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if turning off hardware acceleration fixed it it is a graphics card/driver issue
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