@dostovel Ahh ok thanks Omar . I had tried putting the origin at 0,0,0 but not the actual mesh . That is a bit annoying yes. At least I can get back to my Mech now 🙂 Thanks!
One other quick thing, do you know what happened to “remove doubles” I cant find it anywhere and hitting the spacebar to search doesn’t find it either ….. I can only assume they have called it something else in 2.8 which is why I cant find it