Can't Select
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SketchUp 6.4.265 on Windows XP; file size 1.8MB; Edges 848; Faces 257; Components 16.
Does anybody know what causes the Selection Tool to stop working from time to time? I searched the forum, but nothing found.
Usually after I've been working on the drawing for a couple of hours it will occasionally stop responding to that one tool. Often after editing a Group or Component, I try to deselect it and select something else. But a left click with the tool doesn't select anything. I tried min-maxing the window to no effect. Usually after a minute or so I regain control of the Selection Tool. But sometimes it takes several minutes. Besides annoying, it's a time waster.
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It's possible that you're editing inside a component/group and trying to select something outside.
.. Or not -
@unknownuser said:
It's possible that you're editing inside a component/group and trying to select something outside.
.. Or notNot.
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haha.
what happens if you use another tool (say, draw a line) then back to select?
or, what do you do to get it working again?in the meantime, you could probably just save ,quit SU, relaunch as that shouldn't be as big a time waster.. still annoying though.
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Something I've had happen a couple of times where the select tool quits working is that there are actually 2 faces on the surface. There's no Z-fighting visible, so you can't tell there are coplanar surfaces there at all. Usually happens on complex surfaces that have been edited a lot when it happens to me. Anyway, turn on "view hidden geometry", get rid of a few edges on the surface you are working on (it will obviously disappear), and then rebuild it. See if that doesn't take care of it.
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@escapeartist said:
Something I've had happen a couple of times where the select tool quits working is that there are actually 2 faces on the surface. There's no Z-fighting visible, so you can't tell there are coplanar surfaces there at all. Usually happens on complex surfaces that have been edited a lot when it happens to me. Anyway, turn on "view hidden geometry", get rid of a few edges on the surface you are working on (it will obviously disappear), and then rebuild it. See if that doesn't take care of it.
Coplanar surfaces may have something to do with the disabled Select tool. But my current problem, at this moment, is that I have a component selected, and I can't deselect it. I used it to Intersect With Context, then moved it away so I could select the outline left behind. But the component remains selected and highlighted no matter what else I do. I used Close Component in the right click menu, and it was deselected. But I still can't select anything else. Maybe I'm not holding my mouth right when I click????
After shut-down and restart, everything is back to normal. But I'd like to know what the hang-up is.
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