BLENDER BASICS 6 - Orientations and Parenting

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It's easy to move objects along the X, Y, and Z axis, but what about forwards or backwards relative to its rotation? That's also easy, thanks to its local orientation!
You can switch between Global and Local orientation in the 3D View header, by using the comma hotkey, or by double tapping the axis while transforming.
In this lesson, we also talk about how all objects have a reference point. It's usually the center of the world, but you can set the reference point to be any other object through a process called parenting, which means that it will inherit all of its transforms. The hierarchy of these relationships is displayed in the Outliner.
Some other hotkeys learned in this lesson are:
Alt G: Clear location
Alt R: Clear rotation
Alt S: Clear scale
Ctrl A: Apply (freeze) transforms
Ctrl P: Set parent
Alt P: Clear parent
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Part 6 Orientations and parenting
Choose move tool- under 3D header on the top- switch global to local.
Global orientation- axis of environment
Local orientation - axis of object
Remark- Local help us to scale only 1 axis
Parenting
Select, shift select objects in sequence, last object is an active object(the parent object), then go to object- parent- object from top menu bar.
OR
under properties section there is a 'relation' option select 'parent'
OR
Ctrl P parent the object ✅

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Thank you for the clear explanation. A question: is there any method to leave the origin on its place when applying the transformation? It's a bit annoying to return it to the center of the object every time after applying transform.

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If one clears transformations but the object is not centered how can I reset the object if it was imported to Blender from another software?

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When you press G or S or R and move, scale or rotate the object without pull the arrow etc, how do you do that, on my Blender I can only do if I pull the arrows after press G for example.

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