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Transform center reference coordinates

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Transform center reference coordinates

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- [Instructor] In the last movie we saw two of the options for the use center button up here. We saw use pivot point center and use selection center. Now we're going to take a look at the third option down here, which in the documentation tool tips is called the Transform Coordinate Center, but I think it's more properly known as the reference coordinate center because that third option here is going to respect whatever you've chosen as your current reference coordinate system. So we can transform around some arbitrary point. We can transform around the current viewport, around the world origin or around some other object. Let's take a look. I'll go to the rotate tool and I want to rotate around the current viewport. So I'll leave the reference coordinate system at view and I can go up here to the use transform coordinate center flyout, or also known as the use center flyout and choose the third option. And again, the tool tip says use transform coordinate center. But a better way to…

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