What you need to do is FIRST translate the object so its position 
becomes <1,0,0> and THEN rotate it around the y-axis. (Of course you can 
also first rotate and then translate the object using 
translate <translation along 'own x-axis'*cos(radians(rotation around 
y)),0,translation sin(radians(rotation around y))> (which for 45 deg 
would come to <0.71,0,0.71>) but that's a little more complicated.

Julius

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Maybe I am missing something. 
    If you have an object that is positioned at <0,0,0> and is rotated 
45 degrees on the Y axis, then translate it 1 unit on the X axis, won't 
it be located at <1,0,0>??? 
    
    What I was wanting to do is translate that same object (with it's 
rotated axis), 1 unit on it's own X axis. 
    
    The approximate coordinates would become < 0.71, 0,  0.71> instead 
of <1,0,0> 
    
    Bob Hughes wrote: 
    
    You're hardly an idiot. 
        "Ronald L. Parker" wrote: 
        > 
        > On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 16:56:08 -0800, Tony Vigil 
<tvi### [at] emc-inccom> 
        > wrote: 
        > 
        > >Is there any way to do local transformations based on an 
object's 
        > >current scale, position & rotation?  (i.e. a translation on 
an object's 
        > >X axis as apposed to the origin's X axis) 
        > > 
        > >If there isn't currently a way to do this, is there enough 
interest for 
        > >someone to create a patch? 
        > 
        > Maybe I'm an idiot, but if you can't just put the translate 
along the 
        > X axis in before whatever transformation moved it to the new 
position, 
        > how is the software going to know what you thought the X axis 
was? 
        
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        =Bob

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