Cannot create bones correctly

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, I'm trying to create bones on top of this mesh (green piece at the upper right corner)

but the bones end up being somewhere really far away in the scene (blue bones bottom left)

Why is this happening? How do I fix it?

[leeminardi]

Screen picks are typically projected to the XY plane unless object snapping is active.  By clicking bone location in an orthographics view the screen picks are not on a plane parallel to the screen but on the XY plane as can be seen in the Left view port (bottom right view).  Make sure the view you are working in is NOT an orthographic view unless you want to work on the XY plane.