Hi,

I am currently following the getting started guide for Maya 2011 and I have come to a portion where it is required to use the Extrude tool to extend a part of the helmet.
(page 100 : Polygonal Modeling / Lesson 1 / Extruding polygon components)

Everything is fine up to this instruction

5 Click the large circle that surrounds the manipulator to display the rotate
manipulators and then drag the green circular manipulator to rotate the
angle of the extrusion to match the angle in the reference sketch (see
image) and then drag the arrow manipulator a second time to extrude a
second section of mesh.

The actual problem
On my scene, when I click the circle that surrounds the manipulator, the 3 axis’ rotate handles appear,but they disappear as soon as I release the mouse button (It is the same behavior if I move and if I do *not* move the mouse before releasing).

More info
I made a quick test on a new scene, and here everything works as described by the guide. So I think the problem is linked to the actual helmet scene. I tried to reset Window/Settings Preferences/Preferences to default : it does not help.

Thank you very much for reading !

I was having the same problem, but I think I solved it.

I downloaded the trial version of Revo Uninstaller and used it to fully uninstall a conflicting earlier version of Maya, which had not been properly removed.

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