I am having trouble selecting things with my mouse. When I move the mouse, the cursor jumps about an inch on the screen. The cursor moves easily until I start a command then it screws up. It happens with both my mouse and the pad on my laptop. I opened a different drawing and I don't have the problem. I've tried saving the drawing as a new filename and the problem carried into the new drawing. I've run into this before, but I can't remember how I fixed it. Thanks in advance for the help.
Snap settings?
Mouse on "Crack"? 🙂
I checked the snap settings on the bad drawing vs. the settings on a good drawing and they are the same.
Sometimes it is an out of date mouse driver. Related to the screen resolution. No matter how fine of a screen you have, you have digital dots. The mouse moves by jumps. No matter how fine.
I had to delete my old mouse driver, and download a fresh one one time, to get it going right. How old is your computer?
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I got my computer three years ago. If that was the case, would the mouse work fine in the other drawing?
I'm not a Carlson user, but if yours is AutoCAD based, you might try auditing the drawing. Sometimes this will fix errors that are causing havoc in the background. Additionally instead of saving the drawing to a different file, you might try selecting everything in the drawing and copying it into another drawing. Its more trouble, but sometimes that will solve issues that doing a save as will not cure.
I know what you're talking about. I seem to remember the fix being one check box under preferences somewhere. It's a real pain to fix.
Try purging the drawing. We have had this problem with ACAD C3D 2010 and "Purge/purge all" cleaned up the drawing. We received the drawing from an engineer using ACAD 2007 - Land Development.:-O
No help here.
Call Carlson Support. They are great!
Tom,
I've had that prob before. If I remember correctly, I made a block of the dwg. Started a new dwg, checked snap settings and inserted. I exploded once (to keep other blocks intact). This may help or not. If it doesn't then there might be something other that can be fixed this quick way. I'm running Carlson 2008 Standalone.
Snoop has the best last resort....callem' they are very helpful.
> I am having trouble selecting things with my mouse. When I move the mouse, the cursor jumps about an inch on the screen. The cursor moves easily until I start a command...
This sounds like a SNAP setting as described by Foggy (take note, this is different than OSNAP settings). If you toggle F9 on your keyboard, does the problem persist? Alternatively, right-click on the Grid "tile" along the bottom portion of the AutoCAD application and choose Settings to see if that sheds any light on the problem.
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Ladd Nelson
> This sounds like a SNAP setting ...
Sounds like a snap to grid is turned on.
F9 toggles grid on/off
Thanks for the help. I just got back into the office. I will try the suggestions and hopefully I'll come up with a solution.
I thought I was turning the snap off by clicking it on the bottom toolbar, but apparently not. I typed "snap" "off" and that seems to have fixed it.
Thanks again for the help.
f3 toggles the osnaps on and off.
> F9 toggles grid on/off
I was going by what the dialog box shows:
On my system, F9 controls the Snap, F7 controls the Grid.
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Ladd Nelson
