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Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 7, 2013 9:11 p.m.

Hi everyone,

I'm having the strangest issue with Houdini, I can no long select the geometry that I'm working with. I changed the selection options to primitives, lines, points, etc. and I still can't select anything. I thought it might be an issue on start up but after I restarted the program I still got the same issue. I'm working on a Windows computer and I've never had this issue before until now. Is anyone else having a similar issue or does anyone know a way to fix this?

Many Thanks!


anon_user_37409885: Member; 4189 posts; Joined: June 2012; Offline

July 7, 2013 9:37 p.m.

is the green select option turned off on the node?

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Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 7, 2013 10:35 p.m.

Thanks for the quick response! Yes it is. I also can't select geometry when I'm inside the objects even when I have an edit node in place.

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anon_user_37409885: Member; 4189 posts; Joined: June 2012; Offline

July 7, 2013 10:44 p.m.

That sphere looks like a primitive type sphere, you need to change it to something like polygons to select the parts of it and edit it.

See if changing the type helps: Click on the sphere node and change the Primitive type to Polygon.


Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 7, 2013 11:30 p.m.

Ok Thanks I'll try that


Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 7, 2013 11:38 p.m.

I tried changing it to a polygon like you said but I'm afraid I still can't select the geometry. This is a baffling problem.


anon_user_37409885: Member; 4189 posts; Joined: June 2012; Offline

July 7, 2013 11:41 p.m.

can you upload your scene file and we can have a look


Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 7, 2013 11:52 p.m.

This is an older scene file that I want to make some changes to the bottle design. Thank you for all your help.

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bottle.hipnc (75.5 KB)


Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 7, 2013 11:53 p.m.

Sorry I added the file to the wrong area.

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anon_user_37409885: Member; 4189 posts; Joined: June 2012; Offline

July 7, 2013 11:58 p.m.

not sure why its not working - just selected some polygons on OsX & Houdini 12.5.453

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Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 8, 2013 12:32 a.m.

Ok. I think I'll just uninstall Houdini and reinstall it to see if that fixes the problem. Thanks for all your help!


malexander: Staff; 5258 posts; Joined: July 2005; Offline

July 8, 2013 9:44 a.m.

There was a problem with picking things with AMD hardware due to a driver bug in earlier 12.5 versions. A workaround was added in 12.5.383 to fix the problem, so if you're using an earlier version of Houdini with AMD hardware you'll need to upgrade to a build > 383 (I'd recommend the latest production build, 427).

If this doesn't apply to you, what graphics hardware/driver are you running?


Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 14, 2013 10:03 p.m.

I uninstalled Houdini and reinstalled it but I'm still getting the same problem unfortunately. The graphics card that I'm running is a Nvidia Quadro 4000.


Ariel_E: Member; 9 posts; Joined: July 2011; Offline

July 14, 2013 11:02 p.m.

I got it to work! (yay) I updated my driver for my graphics card and after updating it, Houdini is now allowing me to select the geometry. Thanks for all your help everyone!


newfreedomeric: Member; 1 posts; Joined: Oct. 2018; Offline

Nov. 8, 2018 10:13 a.m.

Hi Everybody,

Also was having trouble selecting objects to show translate/rotate/scale widget in Scene View (selecting from any of the nodes in network), with a simple geometry with a few transforms and merge. I'm on Houdini 17.0.352 apprentice.

Thankfully, updating my GeForce Game Ready Driver to V 416.81 fixed the issue. I'd updated driver pretty recently before, maybe a week ago, but this version (Release date 11/8/2018) was the solution.

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