Object mode is not working in blender 2.8

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I can’t select objects from a project I’m working on. I can select some of them by right-clicking on the names on the list. Although, there is no outline indicating that an object is selected when I select an object. Moreover, I can’t move the objects with a moving tool (which is actually not visible) nor by pressing ‘G’ – rotating and scaling is not possible as well. I can move the objects in the edit tho.

I have tried to append all of the objects from the project to a new one. The same thing is happening but just to the objects from the project, I’m working on. However, all is working fine with a new object just for a bit of time.

Do you know why is that?

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Have you by chance accidentally disabled “selection” for the viewport or collection? Any of the arrows in the screenshot:

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All enabled … I’m wondering if the file got damaged somehow …

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I think I have got it — It looks like Blender can’t handle when there is a lot of object in the scene.

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can you define “a lot of objects” and post an example scene where you suffer this problem so devs can try it and see what is happening? :slight_smile:

Cheers!

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I had another bunch of objects in a scene – this time all was good so I’m not sure what caused the problem.

Initially, I appended the project to Blender 2.7 – deleted 20 objects and appended the project back to Blender 2.8 in order to solve the problem.

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I experienced the same problem starting yesterday. I appended a model file and then could not scale it. If I opened the original model file, I could scale it just fine.

I think the file into which I was appending was somehow corrupted. I say this because I create a new file, appended my model, and then I could scale it just fine. Sadly, I overwrote the file that I suspect was corrupted with the new file so I cannot submit that for forensics. If you are having this problem, try appending to a new file and see if that helps.

  • Kaos
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Quick note, I’m using Blender 2.83 on Windows 10 with all the latest OS and drivers as of today. My addons are Kitops, BoxCutter, Decal Machine and Fluent.

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Maybe you accidentally linked the object file instead of appending? A linked object is imported read-only (including it’s transforms) so you need to add a library override to be able to move it.

At least that’s my experience with linked objects. I’m fairly new to blender myself, so I could have overlooked something.