Properties window disappeared

[lonedevil]

Help please,

I have got back to Autocad 2008 after few months in which I did not use it. I open the program and find I can't get the properties windows up anymore: neither from the icon menu nor through the mouse icon.

 

How do I get it back? I need to constantly have it open to check objects proerties.

 

thanks

LoneDevil

[hotrodz0321]

Help please,

I have got back to Autocad 2008 after few months in which I did not use it. I open the program and find I can't get the properties windows up anymore: neither from the icon menu nor through the mouse icon.

 

How do I get it back? I need to constantly have it open to check objects proerties.

 

thanks

LoneDevil

 

type CH or CHANGE

[lonedevil]

type CH or CHANGE

 

Thanks, that makes me see the properties in the command line but how fdo I get the properties window back on my screen?

[BOB'27T]

Type in "PR" that should get it back on the screen.

[lpseifert]

Maybe it's off screen... try this

Hit Ctrl+1 to open the window, then hit Shift+Spacebar+M, use the arrow keys to move it on screen.

[lonedevil]

Nope it doesn't...reinstall maybe? I guess it's the only option now.

[lpseifert]

I'd try a repair before reinstall.

[lonedevil]

Maybe it's off screen... try this

Hit Ctrl+1 to open the window, then hit Shift+Spacebar+M, use the arrow keys to move it on screen.

 

Nope I don't seem to get anywhere.

[lonedevil]

ok thanks, I am going to try a repair first and then I will let you know.

Thanks guys anyway.

[lpseifert]

My error...

It's Alt+Spacebar+M

[lonedevil]

I got it back after repairing AutoCad.

Thank you to all of you.

 

LD

[russ1669]

Alt + spacebar + m worked for me. I didn't know that shortcut existed. Thankyou.

[john smith]

i'm using plant 3D.

 

none of these things worked. nothing works.

 

autodesk has failed to produce an adequate product. 

[f700es]

Well all products work on my end. What about vanilla acad? 

[CyberAngel]

17 hours ago, john smith said:

none of these things worked. nothing works.

 

autodesk has failed to produce an adequate product. 

I can understand your frustration. After 30 years, I am intimately familiar with the inadequacy of AutoCAD. Right now, for instance, I'm dealing with a plotter driver that crashes AutoCAD about half the time.

 

I would suggest that first you learn everything you can about the user interface. There are shortcuts and customizations that will make your work easier. I can open the Properties window by selecting an object, right clicking, and picking Properties from the pop-up menu. The advice here from 2008 is still good, as far as I know. If you still have trouble, tell us as much as you can about your installation and what you've done so far to solve the issue. And welcome to the forum.

[f700es]

3 minutes ago, CyberAngel said:

I am intimately familiar with the inadequacy of AutoCAD. Right now, for instance, I'm dealing with a plotter driver that crashes AutoCAD about half the time.

Did AutoDesk write this plotter driver? If not I would not blame AutoDesk for this issue, to be fair. No software is perfect

[Dadgad]

Is it Properties or Quick Properties which has gone missing?