3D object Map Art dialog: bounding box missing for my symbol (but visible for default symbols)

[puffmoike]

I'm making a custom version of the Back To The Future logo.

But I've hit a roadblock on my most recent attempt: there is no bounding box visible when I select my custom symbol, but there is when I select a default symbol.

This means I cannot scale, rotate or stretch my symbol (and I even had to resort to editing my initial symbols so as to rotate the words vertically, simply to get them to display in the correct orientation on the imaginary cylinder)

No bounding boxHas bounding box

I have checked the symbol options, and they are the same for both symbols.

Symbol settingsDefault symbol settings

Frustratingly with earlier versions of my symbols that I made when first experimenting I could see the bounding box. Arggghhhh!

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

Any ideas on what I can

[tromboniator · Accepted solution]

It appears to be necessary to Expand Appearance of the artwork with the gradient before creating the symbol.

Peter

[puffmoike]

Thanks! That solved my problem.

[Larry G. Schneider]

You can always use the appropriate tool to Scale, Rotate or Stretch any object without the bounding box. The keyboard shortcuts to access the tools are "s" key for Scale, "r" for Rotate and select, click and drag to Stretch. These were available long before there was a Bounding Box.

[tromboniator]

Larry, that doesn't help in the 3D Revolve Map Art window in trying to scale the mapped symbol.

[puffmoike]

Thanks for trying to help, but as trombinator pointed out my problem was specific to the 3D extrude Map Art window, where those shortcuts don't work. (Thankfully his suggestion worked)