I have read the manual tutorials, read yours here, and read several others. I know how to do grouping, and how to place bones. Here are my problems though: After making a complete figure with groups and bones I go into the pose room (Poser 5) and when I try and move a part it "breaks away" from the rest of the object. If it twists or is Moved this happens. I went into the joint editor and it is extremely confusing. I read the help on that but it is still confusing. Can someone please explain how I make the different parts of a creature "stick together" so the parts do not tear apart? Here is the process I use: Bring the 3D object (OBJ) into poser. Go to Set-up room. Assign groups. Name groups according to what part (Head, tail, etc) Create bones in the same areas of the groups with similiar names (head_bone, tail bones, etc) Assign the Bone groups to each body group (Head to head_bone) OR Do not create groups, just make the bones, then autogroup then clean-up. It seems no matter which way I do it, the parts still rip or tear apart from each other. I use the proper hieracrhy when creating the bones. HELP!!