Help needed: How to switch off the blue dot in the centre of the 3D View

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Hi

I cannot not find the (probably simple) solution how to get rid of the little blue dot indicating the center of the view port:

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It is not there when I reload the factory settings.

thanks in advance

ulli

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Check the outliner for any stray objects and your object for stray vertices on your object

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Hi Richard

thanks for your answer.
Well that is not the cause I fear, it still is there in a complete empty scene.
even with “only render” enabled
That dot is annoying when sculpting, it is always in the middle,

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Please supply a blend file

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Thanks again, hope you can reproduce that, and see it;), so I’m not alone:

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Sorry, no dot here.
Do you by any chance use a 3DConnexion device? I think their driver can cause that blue indicator which lets you rotate about the center. AFAIK you can go to the options and make it show only when rotating…

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I don’t see any dots either, but if you switch the outliner to display datablocks and expand Objects, there is a strange Empty object with no users. When I saved and reopened the file, it was gone.

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Hi Ikari and Stan,

thanks for your care. You rock.
“SOLVED”
So it is a deep deep bug:
That blue dot is caused by a formerly plugged in SpaceNavigator, which was the last time switched to “show navigation guide”
I plugged it in again, switched that off and the blue dot disappeared.

Unfortunately it is not possible AFAIK:) to change it back without a SpaceNavigator, so I could have searched forever.

And it is great to explore those Data Blocks:D, that empty was still there because it was used for the DOF a the deleted camera, I guess.

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It is possible to bring up the 3dmouse menu without a 3dmouse, but its a bit of a pain.
You have to assign a normal keypress (we have lots of unused keys, right?) to the NDOF ‘Call Menu’.

Sounds like it would be a good idea for Blender devs to put a checkbox for that option at the bottom of the NDOF setttings in Preferences–>Input. Otherwise, like you said, people would be looking forever to find a setting they cannot normally access.

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Hey man, Can you help me how did you solved this deep deep bug

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I didnt get the space navigator thing you mentioned !

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Uncheck this

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Oh! man, Thanks so much ! Problem Solved. hah! :raised_hands: :loudspeaker: :+1:

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