Hello,

I confess I am a complete newbie, however while exploring the functionality of Blender I downloaded a free "tank" from Turbo Squid and was attempting to get familiar with Blender using the tank (T_302) and while I was exploring the rotation manipulator I could see a Red Green and Blue "arc" which allowed me to tilt parts of the tank, or all of the tank on the X Y and Z axis, UNTIL ( until ) I selected the turret assembly of the tank.
When only the tank turret is selected there is no Z axis (Blue Arc) shown.

Shouldn't all three ( X Y Z ) axis "arcs" be available at all times?

Thank you,

~ Allen

Friend., its better it you post it in interface and tools thread.You will get very quick replies there.As of your question, all the transformation widgets are supposed to be visible UNLESS they are LOCKED.

With your turret selected, if you open the Transform panel(Hit N key in 3dView.A panel pops up on you right).Here you can see what are the current transformations on your body(Location,Rotation,Scale) with a lock symbol at the end of every axis transform value.
If the lock is LOCKED, your transformation widget related to that lock will be invisible.

I guess I hit the target!!

I appreciate your response.
As you stated, the Z axis was locked.
The weird part about this is the fact the logical choice would have been to lock the X and Y axis while leaving the Z unlocked.
You response allowed me to make the appropriate changes.

Thank you,
~ Allen

simtron wrote:

Friend., its better it you post it in interface and tools thread.You will get very quick replies there.As of your question, all the transformation widgets are supposed to be visible UNLESS they are LOCKED. With your turret selected, if you open the Transform panel(Hit N key in 3dView.A panel pops up on you right).Here you can see what are the current transformations on your body(Location,Rotation,Scale) with a lock symbol at the end of every axis transform value. If the lock is LOCKED, your transformation widget related to that lock will be invisible. I guess I hit the target!!