Originally posted by Markuz How can I rotate an object around the origin with the pivot-point left at another point. In this case: How to rotate the part of the stargate-iris around the origin with the pivot-point left above the origin so that the next Iris-part looks like the yellow painted in the picture here (preferably: How to do the transform-duplicate-tool make that work for me?): u could group the iris part in a new group, the new group will have the center in the origin. after this u can easy dublicate (rotate) this one part and build the complete iris. so long C.