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Can't select anything in my viewport...

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:35:13 GMT

im so sad.. i running maya 2011 x64
but about a week i started to suffer..
i cant select anything.. and can only select when i use select all in my right click..

i already try to revert the preferences settings and try to fix and reinstalling but nothing
of it works..

can anyone help me :((

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

adrianz — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:26:03 GMT

you might have accidentally turned off your selection abilities. look at the top of the screen and see if you see an icon that looks like a lock. to the left of that there will be 8 icons in blue starting with a question mark closest to the lock. if there is a border around these they are locked and you wont be able to select anything in the viewport. click on each one until you are able to select whatever it is in your scene you are trying to select.

hope that helps.

Adrian

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anifex09 — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:35:23 GMT

Try going to the viewport pull-down select Show - Selection Highlighting - even if this is already checked it, uncheck it and then re-check it to reset the Selection Highlighting (BUG). Also make sure in your Display Layer editor that you are not using a Reference Display type. This problem is 90 percent of the time human error. You may want to also try using the selection editor to rule out if it is a viewport issue. I wish you luck.

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:50:55 GMT

I have exactly this same problem, I've searched the internet a lot and this is the only thread that precisely explain the selecting problem I have.

For me, in maya I cant select anything normally since the last week, the only way to select something is to right click and select all, or the outliner, but another thing pops up, if you are using move tool for example and click anywhere on the screen it will move the objects instead of deselecting. and you cant move by selecting the axis, so it always moves with all 3 axis.

and as said above, I reinstalled maya 2011 64-bit and even tried maya 2012 but nothing changed. so it's not likely an issue with the preferences as said in the 2 above posts. could it be a display settings issue?

I've been using Maya for over 3 years now, but never had such a crushing issue before 😞

Any new help or suggestion would be very appreciated or life changing, thanks.

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:11:34 GMT

Turn off Tweak mode.

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:12:20 GMT

I just started having this same problem today. I was doing some home work of some very low poly modeling when I couldn;t select anything in perspective view. I can select objets from the other views however.

Also, if I select something in another view and try to move it in perspective, the selection is removed and I'm back to where I started.

I tried making a new camera but that didn't work either. I've tried all the suggestions on this post. I have been searching for hours but I am only seeing the same 2 or 3 fixes and none seem to work.

I am using a an ATI firepro 5800. Could the ati be the issue?

OP: what video card are you using?

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:09:50 GMT

I just started having this same problem today. I was doing some home work of some very low poly modeling when I couldn;t select anything in perspective view. I can select objets from the other views however.

Also, if I select something in another view and try to move it in perspective, the selection is removed and I'm back to where I started.

I tried making a new camera but that didn't work either. I've tried all the suggestions on this post. I have been searching for hours but I am only seeing the same 2 or 3 fixes and none seem to work.

I am using a an ATI firepro 5800. Could the ati be the issue?

OP: what video card are you using?

At me the same problem, but at selecting edges/vertexs in ortographic view, they can be moved in the perspective view. Previews posts dont helped (((Help, please...

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:52:02 GMT

I thought this thread was going to be about a bug that I found in Maya 2011 the other day (and it is a 'known issue' listed on Autodesk's site). I'll mention it incase anyone else finds this thread looking for it:

If you have "Camera based selection" switched on in the tool options *and* you have the viewport option "Wireframe on shaded" switched on also, you can't select edges or vertices. Also vertex snapping will behave weirdly. The 'solution' Autodesk give is just to switch off "Wireframe on shaded". The selected object is always wireframed so it doesn't cause too much of a problem, but it's a shame because I like having a wireframe on everything when the viewport is shaded, esp. when vertex snapping to a non-selected object.

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:47:07 GMT

Hi the same thing happened to me today, I just selected everything with the right click, and select edges or faces and then go back into object mode. This seemed to work for me, I am not sure if it will for anyone else. I hope this helps 🙂

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:06:38 GMT

For me it's the same problem only with motion trail . when the motion trail is active it(s impossible to select any object , to resolve the bug i have to delete the motion trail in the outliner and restart maya .
using mac pro 12 core radeon hd 5870

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:35:34 GMT

Alot of things can affect the viewport. Here are a list of things to try.

1. Camera-Based Selection is meant to only select things that face the camera. It's buggy in 2011 and should be turned off.

2. Make sure the Selection Lock is not enabled. There is an icon in the Status Line - it looks like a padlock.

3. There are some options in the preferences, under the Selection heading. Turn off Click-Drag-Select.

4. Use the Custom Polygon Display options to globally disable backface culling. Unlike the viewport option for backface culling, this option does affect selection.

5. make sure Tweak Mode is off for the Move Tool. The only place i know to find the option is through the Marking Menu for the Move Tool.

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:43:18 GMT

Hello,
I have look at all the criteria that you mention and it is still not working.

I can select the object, but when I right click to select component mode. the object automatically deselect. Can someone help?

Thanks

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:17:30 GMT

What graphic card are you using?

-Avotas

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:39:56 GMT

Hi, had the same probleme. Once it helped to export the model as obj and open it in a new scene. Have you tried that?

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:50:47 GMT

I had the same problem - I found out that I had the "R" checked in my layers panel on the right, once I unchecked it I could select obj's again

- Happy Maya-ing! 😉

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport...

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:35:19 GMT

Maybe there are different reasons but ...

I had a very similar problem today, couldn't remember what I had done. Couldn't select with Marquee tool as a group for edges & polygons but I could for vertexies, which made it seem as if nothing was working.

Solution was ... Open up "Select / Select using Constraints" then "Close and Reset". Works fine now.

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport...

alxcouto — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:46:14 GMT

Hi!

i just had the same issue, black viewport on selection dragging.

Here's my solution, though i can't find any explanation:

Just check the appropiate language of your keyboard settings and restart Maya. All works again!

i've got a 27" iMac with an Spanish keyboard.

The kb settings were changed to US and viewport went wrong. Back to Sapnish kb and everything fine again!!

Hope it can help!!

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport...

rahuls — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:20:14 GMT

go the the upper section where you choose type of selection mode like circle,traingle,lasso,

right next to it, is another mode known as windows/crossing make sure it is unselected

problwm with me was that i couldnt select single polygon or row of polygon , i had to select

whole object

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:58:36 GMT

I have the same problem in 3DS Max 2016 with a particuar scene, (checked all suggestions above) but I am able to select objects in the perspective viewport (Not in any other). However, if I hide some objects, then selection works normally in all viewports - perhaps the problem is something to do with memory management?

I'm running two screens on an Nvidia GT610

Re: Can't select anything in my viewport

adamk — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 06:12:07 GMT

Did anyone find a solution for this bug?

I'm having the same issue in a couple files in Max 2015. It is connected to geometry somehow. The same geometry is in both files. If I hide all geometry, everything else is selectable. When geometry is on - I can only make slections in Camera or Perspective views. It is the same after merging into a new clean file. There are over 5000 objects - I don't have time to merge piece by piece. It is saved in the file - does the same thing on multipule computers.