Marc-Hendrik Bremer <Mar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
: But I wonder if it would be possible to write a macro which does the
: following:
: 1. Translate the Object which is specified by a parameter to the Origin
: (with whatever point one chooses for the non-existing origin of the object)
: 2. Rotate or scale or whatever the Object by a specified (through a
: parameter) amount
: 3. Translate the Object back to its place

  Quite trivial, I think:

#macro LocalTransform(LocalOrigin, Transformation)
  translate -LocalOrigin
  transform { Transformation }
  translate LocalOrigin
#end

  The same for individual transformations (rotate, scale) if wished

: out where a Object is, say you have a sphere at <10,0,10>. Is it possible to
: get this vector from the "sphere-statement" (without declaring it
: previously)? Did not here about something like this yet.

  As I said, objects do not have local origins.

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