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Rotate Tool Not Working

Leonides02Leonides02 Posts: 1,379
in The Commons

I have a new issue: In the middle of a several scenes my rotate and universal tool sudden stops working. Instead of rotating, when I click on the axis it selects the object instead. If I open an entirely new scene, the tools go back to normal.

The "sphere" still works.

I've increased the size of the axis, but it hasn't helped.

I did a forum search and someone had a similar problem back in 2017, but nobody could figure out what was happening.

Anybody else experience this randomly?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,662

    Is it failing on all nodes or only on some?

  • Leonides02Leonides02 Posts: 1,379

    Hello Richard,

    All nodes. The weird thing is if I start a new instance and load up a primitive, the tool works again. Also, it was working previously in the same scene. It just suddenly stops working for some reason. This is a new issue for me. 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,666
    edited September 2021

    Is "Caps Lock" key engaged?

    Have you rebooted your mouse?

    Mouse batteries OK?

    Does the problem persist beyond a system reboot?

    Why is there air?

    Does free will exist?

    Who shot JR?

     

    Yeah, I got a little silly above, but I have problems with my wireless Keyboard/Mouse combo sometimes causing wierd behavior because it's not initializing properly and coming up with the "Shift" function reversed until I hit the "Caps Lock" key which can affect menus opened or actions initiated by the mouse.  (This keyboard doesn't have a "Shift" indicator light so I can't tell without testing.)

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • Leonides02Leonides02 Posts: 1,379
    edited September 2021

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Is "Caps Lock" key engaged?

    Have you rebooted your mouse?

    Mouse batteries OK?

    Does the problem persist beyond a system reboot?

    Why is there air?

    Does free will exist?

    Who shot JR?

     

    Yeah, I got a little silly above, but I have problems with my wireless Keyboard/Mouse combo sometimes causing wierd behavior because it's not initializing properly and coming up with the "Shift" function reversed until I hit the "Caps Lock" key which can affect menus opened or actions initiated by the mouse.  (This keyboard doesn't have a "Shift" indicator light so I can't tell without testing.)

    Ha. Thanks for your help!

    The weirdest thing is it works when I open up a new instance, so it's not anything related to the software or hardware. 

    I checked the settings in the "Tool" panel and they're the same.

    If this was the first time, I'd shrug and call it a one-time weirdness. But this has now happened to me three times. sad

    The only way to fix it so far is to "merge" an existing scene into a new scene file.

    Post edited by Leonides02 on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,662

    Have you any plug-ins that add new tools installed, and have you used them in the problem scenes?

  • Leonides02Leonides02 Posts: 1,379

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Have you any plug-ins that add new tools installed, and have you used them in the problem scenes?

    Hm. Only Mesh Grabber. But that doesn't seem to be the cause because I can use it freely in other scenes with no issues. Weird!

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