Thanks Bob for the link.  Looks like some interesting stuff there, but I didn’t want to wade through it just yet.  I typically use four programs for editing CR2 and other Poser files.  First Poser 7 to create and do general manipulation  (Poser 7 to maintain back-compatibility), Dimension3D’s Poser File Editor 3 for cleanup and other tasks, sometimes Phil_C’s CR2 editor for tasks I find easier to do there than in PFE 3, and for text editing NotePad++ with my own custom language add-ons for Poser files (the add-ons allow block collasping and expansion and paranthesis nesting is checked automatically).

Phil, thanks for the tips.  In those places where I can’t easily do the following, I’ll try them.

What I ended up doing is a solution I’ve used before although in this case I needed to edit the mesh and change the hierarchy.  There are a slew of mechanical parts that operate together but, because of the way the mesh is set up are rotated 5.625 degrees from a cardinal axis.  I added a dummy parent and changed the mesh so the whole slew are now aligned on a cardinal axis.  All the child axes are now nicely orthogonal and rotating the parent to the 5.625-degree alignment puts everything in the correct position.  This is sort of a simpler take on Phil’s last note.

This is only needed for translation; rotation works fine after the origin axes are adjusted to match the part.

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