Making a duplicate of the pipe end - can't control the rotation axis

posted to: Modeling Pipes

4:20 of pipes -

The end part of the pipe is duplicated and rotated around the 3d cursor.

I have trouble doing this. The first time I tried I rotated around the global origin of the scene, and this was confusing because it actually looked okay in one of the orthographic views and I did not know this was what happened until I switched views.

The second time I tried, I rotated around the origin of the object and that was wrong too.

How do I rotate around the 3d cursor? Instructor does not say, just assumes you know.

  • William Miller(williamatics) replied

    To rotate around the 3D cursor, simply set it as the pivot point.  I hope this helps!

  • erikitect replied

    Thank you

  • Kent Trammell replied

    My apologies for the confusion - There's tons of tools to keep track of in Blender! But I did demonstrate using the 3D cursor as the pivot point in the previous video at 9:34.