Cannot scale or rotate any object. This is in single *.blend file. Works okay in others.
What happens instead is I get black 2-way arrows at the curser and a black dotted line to the selected object’s origin. LMB does nothing and those just go away. It happens this way regardless of whether I am trying the S or R keys or toggling the Orientation markers for the object itself. It is so for every object.
G works okay, however.
I can, however, scale and rotate by clicking into the properties panel of the very same 3D View window.
Most frustrating. Am using 2.56a Beta. Objects are not locked. Assuming I accidentally activated some obscure “feature” for this file only.
Most likely you enabled “Manipulate Object Centers Only”. A button that is easy to hit. Right between the Pivot Center drop down and the 3D Manipulator button along the menu bar. (has a double arrow with 3 dots above it)
Yup, that was it. Now I also know what that thingie is for. Thanks a lot!
I know my membership in this forum dates from 2006, when I tried to teach myself Blender 2.3. Built the gingerbread man and made him walk. But I got flustered with all the other strange things that happened with the panels and windows and couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
Starting over with a new book, Blender Foundations, which is going okay so far. Thanks again.
