Maya file has disabled scale tool

CurvCarvr

I have a Maya file in which suddenly my scale tool has become grayed out for all uses including on new objects. Also my move tool has lost the arrows on its manipulator. Old and new Maya files, other than the one I am having a problem with, operate normally.

Does anyone know what might cause this?

Seaseme

Sounds like you locked the channel boxes. Go to the channel editor, highlight the scale channels right click and press unlock. That should fix the grayed out manipulators.

As for missing manipulators .. I'd suggest deleting your maya preference folder in My Documents. That's usually the first course of action when maya starts acting screwy.


let me know if that helps. If not there is more stuff we can do..

CurvCarvr

Thanks!

I deleted the pref folder and restarted Maya. It wasn't caused by locked channel boxes. I don't know what preference caused it, but that's OK because things are back to normal again.