M-Ferioli Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 When I drag a line, or wall, or resize a shape and hit the tab key it does nothing. I though it should open a edit window so I can specify values manually? I've seen this in videos and am wondering if I have a setting off somewhere. The tab key does allow me to cycle through coincident objects in a job though. Is this a hotkey setting? Thanks, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmejerry Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Are you letting go of the mouse button and hitting tab or are you hitting tab while holding mouse button? mouse button must be pressed for it to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M-Ferioli Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 I've tried left mouse, right mouse, hold button with tab, release button with tab, in a different job...Im stuck. also, I'm using OS X with a regular old dell keyboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 It works with Windows on a PC - not sure about OS X on a Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 I actually find it easier to use the right mouse button when creating walls (continuous mode) and then go back and select individual walls to assign the dimensions to other walls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Just to clarify here, this is the order of operation... Press (do not release mouse button yet)>Drag>Tab (now you can release the mouse button) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M-Ferioli Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 yup, thats what I'm doing. I was trying to concentrically shrink a poly line solid and enter coordinates while doing it when I realized I couldn't. With walls I can go back and adjust things but Im not sure how to enter coordinates after if I can't tab in while performing the operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 8 minutes ago, M-Ferioli said: yup, thats what I'm doing. I was trying to concentrically shrink a poly line solid and enter coordinates while doing it when I realized I couldn't. With walls I can go back and adjust things but Im not sure how to enter coordinates after if I can't tab in while performing the operation. Just noticed that you're using Interiors. That's where your problem is. Interiors doesn't have that feature. You'll have to use dimensions or dialog boxes of one sort or another. There are a lot of ways to resize things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M-Ferioli Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 huh, thanks! Seems odd that they would leave that functionality out of interiors. I would think interiors users would need that as much as any one? I used dimensions but got stuck on trying to figure this to for awhile until I went out and got stuck in traffic. not sure which one was more fun. Thanks again for taking the time to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAUserTarch Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 On 11/22/2018 at 6:10 AM, M-Ferioli said: When I drag a line, or wall, or resize a shape and hit the tab key it does nothing. I though it should open a edit window so I can specify values manually? I've seen this in videos and am wondering if I have a setting off somewhere. The tab key does allow me to cycle through coincident objects in a job though. Is this a hotkey setting? Thanks, Mike I am troubled with Tab Key, which doesn't work for editing dimensions after CA version up to X12 and MacOS newest version. I can't tell for sure which version up is the cause of this trouble. I tried to use Tab Key on CA X11 if Tab Key works as it used to, but it doesn't work any more. It is very inconvenient without Tab Key to edit dimensions. Thanks and Sorry for not being helpful, Tarch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNestor Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 On 11/21/2018 at 5:04 PM, Joe_Carrick said: It works with Windows on a PC - not sure about OS X on a Mac. It works on a MAC...just like a PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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