You have to freeze the transformation > clear the transformations and double click the rotation button to pull out a menu for the transformation to switch to global transformation from Local. This happens when you have too much history of rotations on one object. EDIT: Be sure that the object is selected before you freeze…
you have to freeze and clear transformations not just freeze them. Freezing it will just freeze the transformation but will not clear the transformation and reset it. You have to have the all transformations to 0,0,0 and history cleared, to make the rotation work normally. Any hoo; Have you tried double clicking the…