Newby Question: Meshes rotating transforming unexpectedly

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I have a model that I have been working on for weeks.

Blender has now started to behave unexpectedly (to my eyes!)... and I do not know where to look for 'the' setting!

When I rotate a mesh ... some other meshes are rotating as well. This is not related to parenting (AFAIK). I have even added a new mesh to the model ... rotated this new mesh and a 'seemingly random' selection of other meshes start rotating as well. Not all of the other meshes are rotating, just 3 or 4.

As you can imagine ... frustrating since I cannot see what has changed.

Where should I look to fixing this?

Thanks.

Additional Info:

I have just selected a parent object that has always worked as expected. Now when I drag the object along an axis ... the child objects move along that same axis ... but at different rates ... thus loosing their alignment with the parent.

I am certain this is an obvious UI box somewhere :-) rather than some sort of data corruption!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 28 '21 at 10:36

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From your description it seems you have coincidently activated Proportional Editing (shortcut: O). This lets you translate other objects (or vertices in Edit Mode) proportionally in distance to the selected object(s). The radius of influence can be changed with the scroll wheel.

answered Oct 28 '21 at 10:36

Gordon Brinkmann

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Thank you ... my life in now restored ! – Folbo Oct 28 '21 at 10:37
@Folbo You could accept the answer to thank me ;) – Gordon Brinkmann Oct 28 '21 at 10:38
There is a time limit to thanking ... and accepting (probably since I was editing my question as you replied) ... but a huge and genuine THANK YOU. :-) – Folbo Oct 28 '21 at 10:45
There is a time limit? Didn't know that. Maybe because I get distracted and do something else before looking again into a question... :D – Gordon Brinkmann Oct 28 '21 at 12:11

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