AutoCAD Pick Preference ?

try the pickadd system variable

PICKADD Controls whether subsequent selections replace the current selection set or add to it
PICKAUTO Controls automatic windowing at the Select Objects prompt
PICKBOX Sets object selection target height
PICKDRAG Controls the method of drawing a selection window
PICKFIRST Controls whether you select objects before or after you issue a command
PICKSTYLE Controls the use of group selection and associative hatch selection

Also Paul on a side note try to avoid "escaping" out of commands this is how strange things happen to your system variables. Most commands are actually mini programs written in either Autolisp, or Visual Basic for Applications. Often these little programs will temporarily change system variables to achieve their ends and then change them back to their original settings prior to completion of the "command". If however, you escape out in the middle of the command then the system variables are not restored to their original condition. This is most often seen with Osnaps. Hope that this helps.

RRain

What are your favorite picks? Do you have a number of running picks selected?

I use a group of:
ENDpoint
PERPendicular
INTersection
NEARest
as my running picks and use the screen icon to 'right' click.

Type at command prompt:
NODe
INSertion

DDSM

I'd have to say like anything else it depends on what I'm doing but generally it's Endpoint, Node, Midpoint, Perpendicular and Center and if acad doesn't read my mind and know which of those I want at a particular time then I simply hit the tab key until the correct osnap is current and hit enter.

RRain

Good one Randy...

I can tell by the MIDpoint that you work in PLSS?

and by CENter you have a lot of curved lines?

It all depends...

DDSM
PERPendicular is a normal line
:beer:

Dan I practice in one of the bastard states, Lots of preexisting M&B parcels mixed with a lot of PLSS. Truth be told I'll spend days digging for existing corners to hold rather than proportion one in.

RRain

PICKARD Allows you to captain the Enterprise.

> PICKARD Allows you to captain the Enterprise.

LOL!

PICKATEGORY will sometimes make the PICK function appear not to be working properly.

I thought that PICKARD allowed you to pick random quotes from the Qur'an.

You might need to change the value of the "sortents" variable.

Good call Steve I forgot about SORTENTS.

RRain

Thanks All, But This Is What Worked?

Settings
Object Snaps
Options
User Ptreferences
Object Sorting Methods
[v] Object Selection
Apply
Then OKed my way out.

I agree about the quitting in the middle of a command. Yesterday my computer locked up in a command, but I could not escape out. I had to kill Autocad and then redo some work I lost as well.

Paul

Hold down the CTRL key while you pick, it will cycle through the entities as you pick, when the object you desire is highlighted, you're good to go!

:coffee:

Thanks All, But This Is What Worked?

That means that Steve was right, the procedure you outlined changes the SORTENTS sysvar.

RRain