Making a duplicate of the pipe end – can’t control the rotation axis

[erikitect]

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]

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

[erikitect]

Thank you

[Kent Trammell]

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.

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