It’s a Driver problem… No it’s the Installation… No it’s the Mouse… No it’s a Wonderful Variable

I had a user with a problem where she couldn’t double click edit anything. I asked how long it’s been that way and she said from the time AutoCAD was installed. There’s a default profile that loads on all users computers’ the first time they run AutoCAD, so I figured it had to be something with her computer. I looked at the mouse driver and found that it was the basic HID driver despite the mouse being a Logitech upgrade. So I figured we’d start with that, but it didn’t fix it. After that I reinstalled AutoCAD and the problem was fixed. Great! Not so fast, the next morning, she said it wasn’t working again. She told me nothing changed. I noticed that her interface had been changed and she said she had a profile that she uses all the time. Umm… that would qualify as something changing.

So the problem was from the PICKFIRST variable.

Long description short, it’s old setting (don’t you love how Autodesk never gets rid of ANYTHING, even if it has absolutely no logical use now) that would allow users that didn’t like grips to turn them off. That’s the only function that I’ve found for this variable.

So, if you can’t double-click edit your text, check your PICKFIRST variable. After researching the variable a bit more, I found that the mvsetup command has been known to change this variable as well.