Grouping not allowed

[Noise]

Hi

 

max doesn't allow me to group certain items in a scene, why would that be?

 

The scene comprises basic elements from Acad, others have been created in max, no major animation etc.. happening.

 

The problem is that I cannot scale all the elements in correspodence as they have their pivot points in different places, usually grouping would prevent this from happening.

 

any help, much appreciated

 

n

[Victor Erthal]

Also you can change the pivot mode (right beside the grid mode "view") from "pivot point center" to "use selection center". Check if the objects are already grouped o any groups opened in the scene too.

 

Just to explain a little better, from left to right: move tool, rotate, scale, grid mode, pivot mode.

[Onslaught]

did you file link your model from autocad? if so, then that's why you can't group.

[Noise]

sorted !

 

thanks for your replies

 

it seems strange but when I went to group the geometry, the option to group was greyed out but the Close option was there so, once that was pressed the elements were back to normal. I think the reason is that the grouped geometry was opened but not closed again and for some reason max doesn't like this.

 

thanks

 

N