I may be wrong, but what ironbearxl suggested is how I used to do it. But you have to turn on snaps and set pivot to Use Selection Center to have the transform point snap to where you want it. Transforming About Snapped Points You can transform a sub-object selection from a temporary pointsuch as rotating forearm vertices…
Pior : I tried that autogrid very nifty. Swytch: I finally got it working, It's for scale and rotation transformations only right? Thats' better than nothing. I also was playing with the working pivot too. LouisMarcoux - Working Pivot Demonstration:- http://louismarcoux.com/Videos/Max2008_NF_WorkingPivot.wmv Working pivot…
I do not use modo so I am not sure if this is what you are asking but I will toss it out there... If you want an object to share the local axis of a different object you can always go into the hierarchy panel and click the "affect pivot only" button and then use the align tool to match objectA's pivot and rotation to…