I recently have been trying to model a fountain, and I wanted it to have a unique look. I decided that I wanted to put gems every 10 degrees around the fountain to make it have a nice design.

Question: Is it possible for a object to rotate around another object in exact distances away from each other?

Right off hand I can think of 2 ways to do this. One would be a motion path ( a little difficult to set up ) A really simple way is to link parent one object to the other. Then when the parent is rotated the child will revolve around it.

Stephen Ray

you could set the origin (not the position) of the object you want to rotate around the other object (in this case, the gems) to be at the center of the other object, click "show origin handle" so you can see it and there should be a line connecting the object to a (blue?) dot at the center of the other object. then go to muti-replicate, put 35 for the number, under rotate put 10 for whatever axis you want it to rotate around, make sure the other numbers are what you want (probably 0 for everything but size, which would be 100) hope that makes sense

yes the origin handle is the easiest way though you may need to go to top view to position the little dot.why is there no absolute coordinates for it?

Oh but there is airflamesred if I understand your point. Click on 'A' (Object Attributes), make sure to de-select the little red lock icon on the right. You can then position the object and its origin indpendent of each other. The small sphere in my example is at x, y = 0 and z=30 and its origin is at x, y, z = 0 I hope this helps, Walter

sorry i should have looked closer at this box . thanks,walter for bringing this to my attention

Thanks for the info guys!! Hopefully I can get the picture up in the gallery soon.