bezier handles often locked in one direction?

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

This has plagued me for awhile, and I really don't know the solution to it, but probably should by now.

 

When working with bezier handles while in vertex mode when editing a line. ...the handles often become locked, and I can only adjust them in one direction, such as the Y direction. I should be able to adjust them in the Y, the X, or the Z direction. Other times, they are adjustable in all directions without a problem. I often switch from a bezier handle to a corner, and then back again, and occasionally that solves the problem, but not always. Anyone know how to unlock them properly?

[Gus_Rayvus]

click on the yellow box on the gizmo. Much like using axis constraints with the move tool.

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[Crazy Homeless Guy]

hey that worked. when i first read your response, i thought the question was misunderstood about just wanting to move the handles, but it was not.

 

thanks.

[notamondayfan]

or bring up the axis contraint panel and select which every axis you want the bezier to move.

[anvaraziz]

^^

 

bring up axis constraint planel............

[squeakybadger]

or press f8 when its being a bugger and not moving in your preferred direction

[only3d]

kind of off-topic but not that far off:

 

is there a way to controll the nature of refined points?

i mean i use refine all the time, sometimes it adds a bezier point and sometimes an ordinary one. so can i choose which one to add?