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of the surface as you move the cursor over it. Clicking places the pivot to the
surface and aligns it to the normal (unless Align To View is on; see following).
Align To View When on, automatically aligns the working pivot to the current
view when you place it with View or Surface. This is useful to prepare for
transforms in the screen plane.
Adjust Transform Rollout
Make a selection. > Hierarchy panel > Pivot button > Adjust Transform rollout
You can transform an object and its pivot without affecting its children using
the buttons in Adjust Transform rollout. Adjusting an object's transforms has
no effect on any children linked to that object.
See also:
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Procedures
To scale a parent without scaling the children:
1 Select the parent object in a hierarchy.
2 On the Hierarchy panel click the Pivot button if it's not already on, then
on the Adjust Transform rollout, click Don't Affect Children.
3 Scale the parent object.
The children will remain unaffected.
TIP Never use non-uniform scale at the object level for objects in a hierarchical
chain. Always go to the sub-object level when you do a non-uniform scale
on hierarchically linked objects.
To reinitialize the scale of an object:
1 Select an object.
2 In the Adjust Transform rollout > Reset group, click Scale.
The XYZ values are re-initialized to 100%. This operation prevents
Non-uniform Scale inheritance if a child object is linked to this object.
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