Undo dissapears in MCX

[?Mark]

Brain fart or?

I can't create arc tangent to 3 entities and my undo button is not working while using create arcs function???

Undo button is there but is blanked as if there is nothing to undo.

I hope I make sense

Also it seems that selecting entities is a hit and miss while trying to create those arcs.

I was able to do just that this morning with no problems

 

What gives?

 

 

Mark

[Dan_AKA_ROY]

Makes sense! Happens to me, too. It seems the undo/redo functions gets disabled and that's it. Can't undo or redo anything after that. And not just create arc tangent 3 entities, either.

 

Mark, active Create Arc 3 Points command, click the tangent button in ribbonbar and it will prompt you to select entity. If you want a point thru one selection, click on tangent button again and it prompts you to select a point.

[The Dude]

If you esc out of the arcs function it comes back.

[?Mark]

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If you esc out of the arcs function it comes back.

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No, it doesn't

 

Mark

[Dan_AKA_ROY]

Mark's right. Happens to me. Hitting enter, escape, whatever... undo still blanked out.

 

Dude, sometimes hitting esc works, other times it does not.

[The Dude]

Wow....., I'm sorry, did you say something? All I could see was this hot girl arching backward!

If your an experienced MC user, you should be used to not having that any way.

[?Mark]

O'k, I can't create arc tangent to 3 entities now at all.

Anyone willing to walk this dumb a$$ thru it

I've been doing it for 15 years but feel like a beginner here

Am I missing something?

Just don't say brain

 

Mark

[?Mark]

Dude, you are pretty sharp for a 105 year old dude.

 

You sure you were born on

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18 August, 1900

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That's what your profile say

 

Mark

[Dan_AKA_ROY]

Mark, its Create Arc 3 Points now! Select that command. There's a tangent button in the ribbonbar. Click it and your in Tangent to Entity mode, click again and your in Select Point mode.

[?Mark]

Thats what I've been doing. I finished the whole bunch of arcs like that earlier.

Since you confirmed it, I restarted MC tried again and all is good now

Thanks

 

Mark

[The Dude]

When you get to my age you'll learn to have some patience. When I was you age, we did this stuff with chalky rocks on the walls of caves!

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Mark,

 

The undo/redo buttons will gray out when you have a live entity (cyan colored entity)displayed. For example start creating an arc 3 points and undo should be available until the entity is place with the 3rd point and becomes live. Once the entity is live, the undo is grayed out. Start to create another arc and the undo will become available again.

 

Anytime there is a live entity the focus in on this entity until you start to create another entity, select another function or select the apply button

[Dan_AKA_ROY]

Jim Evans,

 

I'm not quite familiar yet with X, but I believe Mark and myself may be right about this and maybe a bug...again, I could very well be wrong. I know and have observed that undo is greyed out when an entity is live, but sometimes when there are no live entities undo/redo is still greyed out. I've tried everything but still no undo/redo. Maybe I'm missing something but, again, Mark and I are both having that same trouble. My design seat at home and mill seat at work are both doing this.

[?Mark]

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The undo/redo buttons will gray out when you have a live entity

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Yes, but I also noticed what Dan is experiencing on certain occasions (only with undo).

I'll try to narrow it down a little and post back the results, but I could be wrong (it happened before ) .

 

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When I was you age, we did this stuff with chalky rocks on the walls of caves!

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LOL

 

Mark

[?Mark]

Jim Evans,

Just just finished a drawing where I had to add a dozen or so arc's tangent to 3 entities and after accepting a selections and esc from this function so there is no selected or live entities the undo/redo buttons are greyed out.

 

Here is a picture of a little a/v cover I'm doing for my boss

 

 

Mark

[Dan_AKA_ROY]

Not to belabor the point but I'm having the same issue. [ok, I mentioned that already! ]

 

Mark, Don't forget to delete one img tag from both ends to get your pic to show.

[Kt]

Mark,

I notice there is an active prompt in your screen shot... what does it say? is there any chance youve entered another function that would keep undo/redo from being active? I just created quite a few tangent @ 3 point arcs and had no problem undoing them.

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Mark and Dan,

 

If you guys can nail it down to some repeatable steps that would definitely help.

 

we can always hook up via a web meeting and you can take me through your steps and then I can atleast try to the exact same thing.

[?Mark]

It says:

"Select an area of the screen to copy.

Press esc to select entire screen"

 

Got there when I tried to use "copy screen image to clipboard" in MCX.

 

Mark

[Dan_AKA_ROY]

Good idea, Jim. I'll try when I get home. I'll take notes of each step I take to see when and where undo becomes inactive.

 

At work running MC9 all day as I got some rush designs to spit out and am not familiar enough with X yet. When I'm not pressed for time at work I run X, otherwise it's MC9. Hopefully not for too much longer! Been practicing at home quite a bit.

[?Mark]

Jim and Kt erman,

Just repeated this several times and got blanked undo/redo bottons every time.

Here is what I did:

Create arc tangent 3 entities, pick 3 entities, hit escape few times = new entities are there but I get blank undo/redo

 

I know we are supposed to hit apply to fix entity, but I'm a big fan of esc botton

 

So I guess it's not a bug but me

 

Mark

[Dan_AKA_ROY]

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So I guess it's not a bug but me

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Not sure about that. I know what you're saying. I did that here just now, created arc tangent 3 entities and hit OK. Undo fine. Did it again but hit esp instead of ok and again, undo is fine. What I'm getting at is this occurs intermittently. If memory serves me, undo has blanked out doing it either way. In fact, I don't use esp as much as you say you do. I hit the green check [ok] when finishing a command and still had the undo problem. Also, it has occured doing a different creation other than TAN 3 PTS.

[?Mark]

Dan,

I got it!

It will ONLY happen if we try to do something we shouldn't do

 

Say you create geo and everything looks good.

Now try something (hate to say it) stupid, like create, arc, tangent, 3 entities and pick say 3 parallel entities.

After the last step undo/redo stays greyed out untill you restart MCX

 

Obviously when i tried doing it before somehow I picked entities that could not be connected in any way so MCX went crazy...(my lazy butt didn't have time to zoom in...)

It shouldn't do it so it is a little bug...

 

Kind regards, Mark

[P_Scott]

Mark and R.O.Y._23,

 

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hit escape few times

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Let me guess. You learned Mcam waaaaaay back when hitting ESC key was the only way to back out of a design function. Even when I do it by hitting the ESC key, it works just as Jim Evans describes it. Did you have any issues during the installation? Was any virus scan software enabled? Just trying to help nail it down. HTH

 

Just read your last reply Mark. "D'OH!!!"

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

I got it to do the same thing but changed modes a few times and hit ESC to clear the ribbon bar and now undo is back and working correctly. Like MCAM lost where it was.

 

Troy