Rotating in Blended causes the children to rotate correctly around the correct axis. In line with other aspects of Blender 2.8’s interface reorganisation, Pivot Point, the option indicated by the Transform Widget (3D Widget), that sets the location around which Objects and selections transform (translate – G, rotate – R, scale – S) and , has been moved and grouped centre-top of the 3D View with other scene manipulation related options and settings. and Object -> Apply -> Rotation.

It’s a way to always orbit around a selected object, rather than do that awkward thing where the viewport just goes off into oblivion when you least expected it.

By default you rotate around the center of the 3D view.

In Sculpt Mode now ( > 2.64a ), one can only rotate the scene around the mesh's geometry origin point. Toggles the Projection. done. While I was deep engrossed looking for a feature in the Blender Settings, I found something else I didn’t know about. The pivot point defines the point around which objects rotate and scale. I understand how to rotate the body around its own frame axis, but I'm not sure how to rotate it around any vector in space.

First I attempted to use Blender's 3D cursor to set the Origin. Or parent the wheel to an empty and rotate that in object mode. Every editable object (mesh, curve, text, metaball, surface, etc) has two coordinate systems: global, which describes where the object's origin is in the world, and local which describes where the vertices/points are in relation to the object origin.

I have a body with origin at point A which is represented in homogeneous coordinate of matrix 4x4 and I would like to rotate it around an arbitrary vector in 3D space.

I'm assuming you're referring to preserving their angles relative to one another. Since rotating means rotating around something, you have to be aware about the something you rotate around. The code could look something like this: PointA=(200,300) origin=(100,100) NewPointA=rotate(origin,PointA,10) #The rotate function rotates it by 10 degrees The Orbit gizmo at the top can be used to rotate around the 3D Viewport. If I need to rotate around something specific, I go to the front view, put it in the center of the screen, then the left or right view and center it again.

Right now, I have my 3D view rotation set to the defaults.

easy: start in top view, rotate, go to side view, rotate again, go to front view, rotate again. Align the clone to the axes you want. In fact it can be shown rotation is a linear transformation and so can be expressed as a matrix. In order to orbit in Blender, middle-click anywhere in the 3D View and drag your mouse cursor around. I then created Emptys where I want to rotate around. Pans the 3D Viewport.