Weird manipulator trouble maya 2017

[ankh7]

hi, I have a problem with my move/rotate/scale manipulator. Everything works fine when in translate mode. As soon as I turn to rotate or scale the manipulator disappears ans I can only fix the problem by selecting a rotate or scale line in the channel box. That's okay, except that when in component mode I dont have this option and I'm stuck with no way to scale or rotate components. I am using maya 2017 update 4 on a w10 system.

Anyone got an idea how to fix it? I checked my prefs settings which show nothing unusual.
Thanks for highlights

[wilkeyren]

You could try and reset each faulty tool by double clicking the tool on the left side and hitting the "Reset Tool" option in the tool settings. If that doesn't work, you can always delete your pref folder and restart Maya to create new preferences, bit annoying, but usually does the trick.

[lerastitch]

I have exactly the same problem, and not sure why it occur What helped me so far was just closing and re-opening Maya (2017). Hope there is another solution. I suspect it could be some weird combination on keyboard we may accidentally click when using some shortcuts. It may switch off manipulators somehow. But again - try close and re-open Maya, and see if it helps.

[ankh7]

Thanks a lot. The 'reset' button in the tool tab seems to work and let me go with no more annoyance up to this point. I could have guessed, wouldn't I have been got mad (and by so, narrow-minded) on such an occurrence!

[ankh7]

Restarting Maya did nothing to me, every time the problem occurred. There may be many things capable of bothering the user in such a way! Wilkerein got the fix for me, hope it can help you too.

[wilkeyren]

Awesome! You'll run into all kinds of errors like that in Maya, most of the time the reset tools button wont do much, but deleting the preferences in the future may be the solution! Keep that in mind. Happy 3D'ing!

[ankh7]

Yeah, I have been for 2 years in the program now and most fixes I get through 'historical" threads. I'm in the joys of MEL scripting now, which in itself gives another size of running-mad issues, for which I try (and most of the times happen to) find solutions, though I guess I won't do it all alone all the way along. Thanks for support.