I should correct myself on a fine point: You can hand-code in the smartParent directive to a figure and it will work fine when it loads. However, if you try to delete the smart parent of a figure you will crash Poser. So you probably don't wanna do that. You can hand code a parent in, but a parent and smartParent are different, as a smartParent will apply to thatpart of the currently selecte figure, while the parent will apply in an absolute fashion. That is to say, smartParent hand will parent the prop to the hand of the currently selected figure. parent hand:1 will parent it to the hand of the figure with internal ID 1. parent hand won't work at all.