Frame Button seems to stop working

Inkubo

This is a tip for new users and old hands like me who may forget since this problem so rarely crops up...

I just spent a half hour restarting DAZ, rebooting my computer, loading different scenes and models, etc, to try to figure out why my Frame Button stopped working. That's the little button on the viewport that looks like a square aiming reticle. My problem was that no matter what character, object, or body part I had selected, clicking the Frame Button wouldn't zoom in on it, and right-clicking the Frame Button didn't aim at it.

My problem turned out to be that somehow I'd managed to activate the Surface Selection Tool. In that mode, the Frame Button does not work normally. I usually hide the gizmos by using the Node Selection Tool, so there wasn't any indication for me in the Viewport that the Frame Button was never going to work right. DAZ Studio helpfully remembers the last tool you use between sessions, so restarting DAZ and even rebooting my computer didn't clear up the problem.

I'm not suggesting anything is wrong with DS, just letting you know that if the Frame Button starts acting all crazy for you, step 1 in resolving the problem is to determine which tool is currently active.

ebergerly

Hey wait a minute...there's a Surface Selection tool???? How come nobody told me ???

Cool. Never knew that. I'm always selecting the object, then the Surfaces tab, then scrolling to the surface. This is much much gooder.

Thanks. 

3WC

Actually, the frame button works perfectly in Surface Selection mode. It frames whatever surface you have selected.

Richard Haseltine

When nothing is explicitly selected DS treats it as if everything is selected.

Eternal Force

Thanks for the very useful tip, Inkubo! I was having the same problem