viewcube locked on one plane of rotation.

[crchisholm]

why will viewcube sometimes only spin in one direction/plane and not allow any other direction/plain

[laughingcreek]

are you in free orbit mode or constrained orbit?

may be helpful to do a screen cast of what your experiencing.

[crchisholm]

Free orbit as far as I know. I don't know how to get into a constrained
orbit, so maybe that's what I need to know. Maybe I'm
somehow constraining the orbit by accident'

[laughingcreek]

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@crchisholm wrote:
Free orbit as far as I know. ...

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what's the icon show at the bottom o the screen?

what method of navigation are you using?  (to part equation -1 what are you doing to orbit? -2 what are your navigation settings in preferences?)

[crchisholm]

I'll have to wait till the next time it happens. I only see it once every day or so.

[crchisholm]

,,,but to answer your question, this happens when I try and spin an object using the viewcube. I did notice that if I then click the orbit icon, I can get it to go back to normal.