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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