You must grab your object first for proportional editing circle to pop up?

Question

This trips me up a few times since I don’t use it for too many things yet, I wonder why you have to grab the object for the circle to pop up then just selecting it in either mode if anyone knows.

Answer 1 · 2023-04-12T05:59:59Z

replied April 12, 2023 5:59am

Hi Brandon,

That is probably, because Selecting doesn't use/isn't affected by Proportional Editing. Only Transforms.

Answer 2 · 2023-04-12T10:47:02Z

Adrian Bellworthy replied April 12, 2023 10:47am

You must grab your object first for proportional editing circle to pop up?

Simple answer is in the name, proportional 'editing',
Selecting is not editing, the action of a transformation is.

Answer 3 · 2023-04-12T12:05:44Z

Omar Domenech replied April 12, 2023 12:05pm

Yeah you have to grab it for the circle to pop up. And to add to the trickiness, sometimes you are too zoomed in or your circle is too big and you grab and the circle doesn't even appear, and you're like, where's the circle? Well it's there, only that it's off the screen because it's either the radius is too big or you're too zoomed in to the object.