Maya; resizing when rotating!

MooseFriend

Hey guys! I'm in school for 3D right now, and my teachers didn't know what was happening. We fought with Maya all morning. When I came home, I renamed the preference file so that it would reset, but I still have the same problem.

When I rotate an object, it scales grotesquely. This seems to only happen to things that are parented, and rarely objects on their own. Is this just a thing that happens with parents, or did I nudge something the wrong way?

Fwap

Still a Maya noob, but i've run into this too.
Not sure how i fixed it, but can you try the usual stuff like Del History and Freeze Transformations? Maybe even go into the rotate tool and hit reset?

MooseFriend

I've done all that, that's what makes me so sad. I've only run into this issue today/yesterday. I parent things all the time and this doesn't usually happen, but now I'm stuck wit' it!

Bartalon

It's because your mesh is inside a group (or a child of another mesh) that has odd scale values. Freeze transforms of your parent objects and this problem should disappear.

Matt_Cooke

Select the object that you are trying to rotate then hit Shift+P to un-parent it.