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Forum Archive › How does this one differ from the point rigid body constraint? › Reply To: How does this one differ from the point rigid body constraint?
HI Maru,
As I understand it, a Point Constraint doesn’t care about the orientation of the Empty, or Object Origin (because a point doesn’t have an orientation, only a position), while a Hinge ‘rotates’ around the Z-Axis of the Empty.