Ian Ross has just released a book on Anim8or. It's perect for a beginner and a good reference for experienced users. It contains detailed chapters on every aspect, with many examples. Get your own copy here: "Anim8or Tutorial Book"
The axis (crosshair) is the cener of a mesh for things like rotation and scaling. It is independent of the position which is the location in world space of the point (0, 0, 0) in mesh coordinates. You can move and rotate the axis in Object/Axis mode, hot key O.
I would like to add this to Steve's explanation hoping that
it would help you understand:
In point mode, if you double
click on a point, you get its coordinates.
In object mode, if you double
click on a mesh you get a transform
(translation + rotation) to be applied
to each point of the mesh before rendering
to the viewport. Think of Location as a translation.
When you join 2 meshes, all the points coordinates
are updated by applying their mesh transform and
the new mesh transform is set to 0.
I attached an image that hopefully explains why I don't understand. I'm just confused WHAT it (the Object Location) is measuring if it's not a comparison the object's origin to the world origin. 
Fantastic desk. You have a really good eye for design.Hey thank you Steve! Definitely a lot of thought and inspiration from other sources goes a long way.
One thing that's funny about this is that when modeling something based off of an object you have references for and stuff already, you're just trying to get as close to the real thing as possible. But with this, it's more like... I'm trying to get as close as possible to something that DOESN'T actually exist yet? Maybe that's too obtuse or maybe even kinda obvious, hahaThat’s how things are made nowadays. Like ... everything in 3D , before the prototypes see the light of day .
Nice stuff Dave. Realised too, that people actually use 3D for “real-life” crafts, a lot and actually for a long time . Pretty cool!
Fantastic work.Thanks Ian!!
Ah, Alec? I have absolutely no idea what you wrote. {shakes head ruefully}
"View >>Preferences >> Use Shaders and try those two options, does it change anything?"
Mullins' Law: "No task is impossible (or even difficult) to the one who doesn't have to do it."
1. With acknowledgment of the above, I would like to request the ability to generate Geodesic domes with more than 6 levels.
2. Generate texture maps from an existing mesh.
These are really cool! I especially like the shoe rack.Thanks Steve! Anim8or is perfect for this kind of stuff
