Hey guys! My maya’s camera based selection doesn’t work, and it realy complicates the modeling process! If i switch to camera based selection, and try to select components, nothing happens, the only thing it seems i can select is the whole model. Please help me with this!

I use camera based selection in component mode all the time.  I have not had any issues.  Can you explain exactly what you are doing and what camera you are using (Orthographic).

Try going in to component mode using the “select by component type” icon (at the top).  Select one of the component option (Face, Vert, Edge).
Select one of the components on your object, hold your “b” key and left mouse cursor down while dragging the mouse.  This will automatically turn soft selection on while sizing the selection brush size.  If this doesn’t work you may have a graphic driver issue.  This is not a Maya error.  No fix for this because it is not a common error.

ive had this same problem, it does not happen all the time though but very annoying

steve

I’ve had a similar problem with selecting objects in any mode. I clicked on an object or component, nothing happened, nothing selected, can’t use RMB choose selection mode menu. This occured after running Maya for a while. Restart Maya fixes the problem but it’ll come back again.

My solution (works for me so far):
Change my ATI graphic card settings. 3D - set everything to ‘use application setting’, turn off ATI overdrive.

I’m running win7x64 with ATI Radeon 5870 (latest driver updated)