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Owl:
This topic is a place for Newbies to get to know each other and some of the more experienced users. Ask your dumb questions here and hopeful many of the kind hearty fellow Anim8or users will chime in.
Declaration, this is a Chat room: No topic is off-topic as long as it is respectful and civil.
Thank You,
Owl

PS: refer back to "Where can I start?"  http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php/topic,5010.0.html for some good tutorials.

Owl:
Is there any documentation or tutorials on: Object/Axis ^O   

Also, I can't find the three coordinate systems choices ever doing anything. They seem like a necessary tool.
I'd like to move and move about the selection points.
Thank You.

johnar:
Hello Owl,
 Just to let you know, the manual is still the 1st place to look for most of the answers to your questions. (download, print, and put into a clearfile folder. Hardcopy is good)
 As you may be aware, V0.98 is still the latest full version, and a good place for newbies to get accustomed to the general outlay of Anim8ors usage.
 The recent builds are a gradual building up of Anim8or, where steve has opened it up to allow users to voice opinions, suggestions, etc on upgrades as they are added
 New functions in builds above V0.98 are an 'Open Work in Progress', and information concerning new functions will be found in the 'Ongoing Anim8or Development' forum.
  For anyone completely new to Anim8or, V.0.98 would be a good place to start, just to get the general feel of the different modes and capabilities within Anim8or.
 Once you're understanding how anim8or works, then you, or any newbie, will be able to make more sense of later additions.
 Re your question
--- Quote ---Is there any documentation or tutorials on: Object/Axis ^O
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, you'll find on page 2 of the manual, Basics -> page 2, Common button meanings.
 The 3rd button, under common button meanings, gives you the option to change the axis point of an object.  Click on that button, go to wireframe view, and you'll see the axis of the object(s).
 Click on the move tool and you can move the axis. Or rotate tool to rotate the axis.
 

--- Quote ---I can't find the three coordinate systems choices ever doing anything. They seem like a necessary tool.
I'd like to move and move about the selection points.
--- End quote ---
  Not sure exactly what you're asking here, but for viewing in your workspace, familiarize yourself with the arc rotate tool. (in the manual, basics, page 5, arc rotate tool)

kreator:
check out these items...

http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php/topic,4990.msg37399.html#msg37399

Owl:
Good advice johnar,
Once you told me that in order to use Object/Axis ^O I had to be in WIREFRAME mode ... it now works. Duh!
I did not get that interpretation from the manual.
This has been a consistent problem for me, without a mode-tree showing what features work in what functions and modes, I regularly hit dead ends where nothing works as it did before (because I was somewhere else in the software's GUI logic when it worked last time)
Thank you!

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