Spacebar woes

troyhome · 26 Oct 2009, 02:06

When you press the spacebar you should get the select icon. When i press spacebar, however, it brings up the model properties. My shortcuts are set to the default spacebar activates tool-select, so i am stumped. I'm on a mac running SU 7.1
Any thoughts?

xrok1 · 26 Oct 2009, 02:17

yeah its a pain, it sometimes changes materials to black or closes windows... depending where your last click was before spacebar. very annoying.

tomsdesk · 26 Oct 2009, 03:30

Since the spacebar in autocad acts as a return, and thus I hit it a lot when I'm stressed and switching back and forth with SU, I set the SU spacebar to do nothing: so if I hit the spacebar after a shortcut key it does nothing (except when the cursor gets stuck in a material editor dialogue bar...damnit :`)

Mark Leichliter · 26 Oct 2009, 14:24

This is driving me nuts as well. Spacebar is the default shortcut to access the select tool, and it is broken. This really should get fixed ASAP.

Gaieus · 26 Oct 2009, 14:41

Guys, I am not a Mac user but can remember something (cannot find now however). "As if..." it had been about some other, conflicting software on the Mac (I cannot imagine that it's broken for the majority).

jeff hammond · 26 Oct 2009, 14:48

reinstall?

dunno, that would drive me nuts too.. fwiw, the spacebar works fine for me.

maybe delete the preference list and relaunch SU? (user/library/preferences/com.google.sketchuppro7.plist)

or,

delete the shortcuts plist? (user/application support/google sketchup 7/sketchup/shortcuts.plist)

[edit- oh wait, did the spacebar act like that since you installed sketchup or did it start acting up after a while?)

troyhome · 26 Oct 2009, 14:57

@unknownuser said:

reinstall?

dunno, that would drive me nuts too.. fwiw, the spacebar works fine for me.

maybe delete the preference list and relaunch SU? (user/library/preferences/com.google.sketchuppro7.plist)

or,

delete the shortcuts plist? (user/application support/google sketchup 7/sketchup/shortcuts.plist)

[edit- oh wait, did the spacebar act like that since you installed sketchup or did it start acting up after a while?)

It only started acting up weeks after install- but i'll try the preferences thing out and let you know.... thanks

david. · 26 Oct 2009, 15:25

The spacebar works fine for me.

Gaieus · 26 Oct 2009, 15:26

This seems to be a Mac issue.

sketchup guide jody · 26 Oct 2009, 15:51

Hi troyhome,

This is actually an issue with Mac settings for keyboard shortcuts. If you go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts and change the setting to "All Controls" then it should get you back in business.

wind-borne · 26 Oct 2009, 17:31

Occasionally have situation where spacebar tap will not exit Rectangle tool.
There is another default shortcut for Select on Macs also, Command /

danbig · 28 Oct 2009, 15:13

Thanks, Jody.

I've been frustrated with this on my mac @ home.

As you know, I haven't had any issues on my pc @ work.

Mark Leichliter · 29 Oct 2009, 21:06

Jody - that does seem to help in most cases. I do still get the Model Info window popping on using the Spacebar when working inside a group or component. Don't have time right now to properly trouble shoot the issue.

danbig · 10 Nov 2009, 21:15

I just checked the keyboard shortcut preferences, and it is set as indicated.

It has not solved the problem for me.

Mac OS 10.4. SU 7.1.

Heaps · 10 Nov 2009, 21:38

The same has happened to me a few times. I find that opening the Disk Utility program (found in Applications/Utilities) clicking the hard disk reference and running the Repair Permissions routine does the trick.