Unlocking Viewports

[nestly]

Someday when I have enough money, I'm going to buy out Autodesk for the sole purpose of permanently removing the PICKFIRST variable ..... AutoCAD users around the world will love me.

[rkent]

I am using AutoCAD 2010.

Recently there are commands that I have used in the past but now are not able to attain through mouse clicking.

I used to be able to right click on a viewport and a dialogue box would come up which had a feature allowing me to unlock that particular viewport. Now all I get is a standard dialogue box with copy,cut and paste,etc. I tried to go to the help section and find a command I could type in for unlocking the viewports and was not successful in finding that info! I need this info today (June 18, 2012)!

Also, I used to be able to click on an object and it would "list" its attributes without typing in the command "list". Another is I used to be able to double click text to edit...now I have to go to the text editor icon.

 

 

Thank you!

 

For the text and object question I would go with PICKFIRST not set to 1. (Already mentioned above.)

 

For the viewport locking, you are selecting it first with a left mouse click, and then a right mouse click I hope.

 

Otherwise you may have an object over the top of the viewport, this happens especially if the viewport is not a standard rectangle.

 

You can always use MVIEW command, Lock, On, All (or select one at a time)

[nestly]

Viewport locking is also a toggle on the Status Bar, just to the left of the Scale list.

[Dadgad]

Someday when I have enough money, I'm going to buy out Autodesk for the sole purpose of permanently removing the PICKFIRST variable ..... AutoCAD users around the world will love me.

 

 

They already do for all those good answers and great videos!