Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
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> Ah, it would appear that my problem here was based on a more serious
> underlying misunderstanding. I've always specified single-axis rotations
as,
> for example, rotate x * 45. I thought that this just meant rotate x 45
> degrees. So what does rotate x*45 mean? 45 times what?
>

x is equivalent to <1,0,0> hence rotate x*45 is exactly the same
as saying rotate <1,0,0>*45 or rotate <45,0,0>

Gail
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