Cannot create any new meshes?

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Hi, I just downloaded Blender two days ago and I’ve been following the noob to pro tutorial
I’m currently at the hat making part
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Putting_Hat_on_Person

Unfortunately I’m stuck, I don’t know why but I can’t create any new meshes, when I add one, the mesh won’t show up on the screen.

I’ve uploaded my .blend file if you would like to investigate further.

Thanks. :stuck_out_tongue:

Edit: Sorry if this turns out to be adouble thread, I posted a thread like this 25 minutes ago but it seems like something went wrong because it’s nowhere to be found.

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howdoimakeahat.blend (135 KB)

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Hello
you’re in “local view”!
Press / (numpad slash) to go back to “normal view”!
And, your character is “too big”?!
Bye

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Ooo1ooO,

Welcome to the forums! A couple of things to try:

  1. shift c will Zoom all to see all objects in your scene
  2. view clipping - in the 3d window at the bottom right, click on view…view properties. If you have created very large objects, the clip end setting may be to low.

Best of Luck!

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Hi, I’m on a laptop so I can’t seem to find numpad slash, I can find the other numpad keys but not the slash one. I looked for another way and a menu with View, Normal, Local, Global is what I found. I’ve changed to “normal” but I still can’t see the meshes that I create.
About the character being too big, yeah, he seems pretty big, not sure why it turned out like that.

I also tried the shift - c trick but I still didn’t see anything. I also tried the view clipping trick, I changed it from 500 to 2000 and 10000 but I still didn’t see anything.

Am I doing something wrong?

I don’t have a mouse so I feel like I’m having problems with the camera. For example, If I’m right, by pressing middle mouse button and then y I can move my camera up and down, but I don’t have a middle mouse button! This might be why my character is so big? :stuck_out_tongue: