Jaelin Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 Ok, I start AutoCAD up this morning and suddenly I have this nice little paintbrush showing up beside my cursor. This is not causing any issues that I know of but is annoying me. I've checked through my option settings and can't find anything to explain this. Anybody know what this might be?? See the pic below. Quote
darn-net Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 Have you tried restarting AutoCAD or Windows? Dave --- "Most of what I know came from the "F1" key" Quote
Jaelin Posted January 28, 2009 Author Posted January 28, 2009 Have you tried restarting AutoCAD or Windows? Dave --- "Most of what I know came from the "F1" key" Yes to both. Quote
Tiger Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 strange....the command MATCHPROP brings out that icon - what happens if you start MATCHPROP then? Quote
vinod Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 Ok, I start AutoCAD up this morning and suddenly I have this nice little paintbrush showing up beside my cursor. This is not causing any issues that I know of but is annoying me. I've checked through my option settings and can't find anything to explain this. Anybody know what this might be?? See the pic below. I have recently installed ACAD09, this has also happened to me a few times.. Quote
skipsophrenic Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 is matchprop set to star aoutomatically somehow? Quote
Jaelin Posted January 28, 2009 Author Posted January 28, 2009 strange....the command MATCHPROP brings out that icon - what happens if you start MATCHPROP then? Hmm, now that you mention it I believe that may have been the command I used right b4 the icon showed up. I didn't think anything of it because I was using the command but then it stays on afterwards. The only difference between that and MATCHPROP is that I have the pickbox while using MATCHPROP but the crosshair when not using the command. Restarting the command does nothing. is matchprop set to star aoutomatically somehow? Not that I know of. It's not starting up on it's own at least. Quote
Lee Mac Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 Hmmm, that is weird. - what happens to it when you invoke other commands that use say a pickbox, or a pickbox with a different icon - does it stay there? Quote
Jaelin Posted January 28, 2009 Author Posted January 28, 2009 Hmmm, that is weird. - what happens to it when you invoke other commands that use say a pickbox, or a pickbox with a different icon - does it stay there? My normal icon is the crosshair with pickbox overlay w/o the paintbrush. When I used to use commands like trim, layer freeze, scale, etc. it would show just the pickbox. Now it shows the pickbox on all of those commands with the paintbrush. Same way for commands that show used to just show the crosshair. Now it shows the crosshair with the paintbrush. It's almost like the paintbrush has attached as a permanent fixture to every command I do now. This is very confusing. Quote
Lee Mac Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 This is very confusing. Hmm... now I'm fresh out of ideas... I would have initially thought that rebooting ACAD would do the trick..but now I'm confused also... Quote
GDog Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 I snooped around a little bit on the internet (I know, I know, I strayed from this site) and the general concensus seemed to be that it was a bug. The options ranged from restarting the matchprop command, saving and reopening the drawing, exiting Autocad and going back in again, and using the hatch command, then erasing the hatch you created. Since I didn't want to be bothered by opening and closing drawings or autocad, I fiddled around with it for a while (granted, it took longer than opening/closing, hahah) and found that the hatch command worked fine. Irritating little quirk though..... Quote
Lee Mac Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 I snooped around a little bit on the internet (I know, I know, I strayed from this site) and the general concensus seemed to be that it was a bug. The options ranged from restarting the matchprop command, saving and reopening the drawing, exiting Autocad and going back in again, and using the hatch command, then erasing the hatch you created. Since I didn't want to be bothered by opening and closing drawings or autocad, I fiddled around with it for a while (granted, it took longer than opening/closing, hahah) and found that the hatch command worked fine. Irritating little quirk though..... No doubt a patch will be released in due course. Quote
GDog Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 Yeah, a patch would be good. I'm running Civil 3D and it still does it; you'd think that would have been dealt with, given the version in which it first showed up. I remember it happening a few years ago too, probably AutoCad 14 or so.... Anyway, we'll see. Cheers! Quote
GliderRider Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 This happened to me after installing 09 with a lot of other strange things like hollow arrowheads, unable to create blocks, unable to copy/paste and etc. Seemed to be a new bug every day. After downloading all the patches available, many things seemed to fix up, if not right away then after rebooting a couple of times. this matchprop symbol just seemed to disappear after a while with all the other things I was getting fixed. Can't say exactly what it was that fixed it unfortunately. Good luck. Quote
JD Mather Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 No doubt a patch will be released in due course. I don't know, I've been getting an intermittent hourglass on my cursor in Layers box for several releases. Quote
Lee Mac Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 Is there not a place to submit these complaints on the AutoDesk site? Quote
stevsmith Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 I sometimes get the paintbrush sticking after matching proporties. I have to close down the drawing and re-open it to make it dissapear. I also have a problem with the multiline. When I use this and finish, the multiline options in the ribbon stick instead of dissapearing after use. Quote
GDog Posted May 19, 2010 Posted May 19, 2010 I know this is an old thread, but somebody might find this useful when doing a search on the subject. I'm running Civil 2011 and had this matchprop brush show up, and the former fix didn't work (hatching something and erasing the hatch). I found a fix on the Autodesk website, thanks to "JohnEng" for posting this easy tip: Try starting the match properties command and then immediately hit enter with out selecting anything. This should turn it off. Works like a charm. Cheers! Quote
janssens561 Posted October 15, 2014 Posted October 15, 2014 To get rid of the paint brush click on MATCH PROPERTIES again and then hit the ESC key. Quote
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