Sketchup 2016 Shortcut Problem on a Mac

[jkharwood]

Has anyone had a problem with the a shortcut using the spacebar to suddenly stop working? I have the spacebar set up as a shortcut for the select tool. I use a mac

[john_drivenupthewall]

yes, there are a number of post about it…

you have tabbing set in System Preferences…

john

[jkharwood]

Thanks John.Could be me but i couldn’t find many posts about that. And what is tabbing and where in the System Preferences? (also, I see that you are also someone who responded to my question a while ago about size of fonts issues I was having exporting eps files from sketchup. I just posted a followup question there too.)

thanks

[john_drivenupthewall]

here is one of them…
john

Spacebar doesn't complete command and return to arrow

On Mac, when Accessibility is turned on, it’ll intercept space bar. You’ll see this by System Preferences->Keyboard and the Shortcuts tab, where tab moves keyboard focus between “All Controls”. If you change this to “Text boxes and lists only”, or type Ctrl-F7, it wont interfere. However, you miss the little blue silhouette and the ability to use space bar to click on the blue-halo selected item.