Thanks – I’ve bookmarked that page. So much software, so little time…

Thanks so much – that does what I want. I’ve done no programming (other than Maxscript :>) for the last five or six years and all this dotnet stuf…

You can change the pivot point the same way you can rotate and position – not at my Max machine right now or I’d look it up for you in the Maxscript m…

The hard part (most likely) will be getting rotations right. Max uses some “unusual” (well, at least to my old brain) ways of handing rotations that …

I did tell you I was half-asleep when I wrote that, right? Anyway <bg> here’s a much easier way to do this all (although the same principles ar…

Actually, VIEW is not the default – World is the default for the coordsys. You can use the in context to set the coordsys you want: in coordsys loca…

Ah, yes, I was awake enough to realize something was wrong in my gut, but not wide enough awake to figure it out :>). But I’m still not quite sure…

I’m not sure I understand what you mean when you say “extract the X Y Z components of each row”. If you mean can you take values stored in three rows…

As a general rule running STL Check modifer on your mesh will at least report back if there are any eggregious errors, but oftentimes a mesh that has …

Well, I do appreciate the response, but what you gave me doesn’t work. If I try and set the .DIR to the tangent it moves it perpendicular to the line…

Ah… nevermind. (I really hate it when I find the answers a few minutes after posting a plea. I feel like an idiot for bothering folks so when I real…

Actually, maybe I had better elaborate in case someone has a better idea in a completely different direction. I’m trying to write a routine that take…