Hello!  I'm learning animation in poser 6...   I have the following problem: I have a figure (victoria), and want to attach to her wrist a sort of ribbon, which is itself a figure, and can be animated... but all the animation of the main figure is done, and I should want to "attach" that ribbon to Vic' hand, then in the curse of the animation, modifie the ribbon's movement; I mean, always attached to the wrist, but the rest "moving", like a real ribbon attached to a hand, when you move that hand...

  thank you for help!!!!!!

Your ribbon figure should have a "base" part - the part that you want attached to Vicki's wrist. Select that, and try parenting it to Vicki; the appropriate forearm is probably the best place. I'm not positive on this since I hardly ever do it, but I figure if I bounce this thread back to the top of the forum it will be seen by someone who knows what they're talking about. :)

thank you, English bob,... but, in fact, there is no way (well, of course, maybe I miss something);

  when selecting the first part of the ribbon, called "start", there is no acess at "set parent";

 so I don't know how to find agin that function, for a figure!....

When I do this sort of thing I use a primitive (usually a ball scaled down to about 20%) parent the ball to vicki and then parent the ribbon to the ball.  This tends to work most of the time, but not all. When satisfied make the ball invisible.

but Touchwood, HOW do you parent a figure (the ribbon).. where is the command to parent it?...

In the Figure menu, go to Set Figure Parent...

In this example I'm attaching a teddy bear to the left hand, which

is sort of similar.  Find the body of the attachment thing (here the teddy)

and just drag it up or down until it hits the left hand.

ockham, it's exactly what I'm looking for... I suppose the tedy is a figure, not one prop, and you can move his arms and so on?...

                             but how do you "drag"?.. I mean, I understand of course what drag means, but in this case, the "body" of my ribbon doesn't want at all to move, up or down...!!!

If the body doesn't move, grab the first thing under the body (the "base" part)

and see if it will move.

I don't understand at all: I just try what you say, with the default figure, and a fish, and your solutions work perfectly: the fish is really linked to the hand, and keep the possibilities to open mouth and so on.. ok...

   BUT, my character, Victoria, is already posed, and the whole animation is nearly done, when I get the idea to add these ribbons; and them, they don't want to react like the fish... no way... nope...

     WHY???????????

I just reply, if other people goes to that thread for information: for one reason or another, parenting a figure with another figure doesn't get any problem, EXCEPT, and it was my problem, if the inityial .obj comes from rhino3d; well , not always, but sometimes...
  here, it was possible to attach bones to the .obj, but impossible to link it to the hand; with a lightwave model, so initially constructed in poly, not nurbs (although of course, nurbs comes in poser once translated in poly), there are no problem, immediately... thank you everyone for your help!!!!!!!