Maya Quick Tip: Adjusting an object's pivot (AKA its center)

In this quick tip, I'll demonstrate how to adjust an object's pivot point - first to spin a planet around its own axis, then to rotate it around the sun.

[TheIcemanModdeler]

You forgot to show the ability to aim an axis at a component, that's very useful.

[ajuvinaju]

Please tell meHow to Copy a pivot rotation from another object

[clausilkjaer]

Lets say you have a pipe where you offset the whole towards one side, how would you move the pivot to be at the center of the new hole using the edges or faces of the hole?

[AlisaOrlova]

How would i align two objects pivot points if they not in a world center and they dont have a helper inside one of them?

[bigboomer]

what if one of the objects is tilted? i have a robot character and her legs are in a slight angle while her feet are flat on the ground. i would try to angle the pivot for her whole leg to move and have another pivot for her foot so it can tap her foot up and down. but when i make the pivot for her foot to be straight, the leg pivot changes and copies the pivot rotation from the last pivot i have edited.

i could do a bone rig but our teacher wants us to use pivots only instead as its a beginner Maya class and rigging with bones and weights is more advanced. its realy iritating

[mrzmbie]

Lovely bro and any Short key for center pivot?

[Sakine-animate]

I'm having an issue. I have my object selected and hit D but my manipulator doesn't display the rotation tool, only translate and scale. Any idea why? (I'm using 2019)

[sameertikkamasala]

My pivot is tilted a bit and Because of that whenever I duplicate special it doesn't duplicate along the the axis. But is slightly tilted. I am unable to fix this. Do you know how that can be fixed. ?

[Milkjiest]

oh my god thank you so much! I had a model from our production thats pivot was like 2mm off center and that made it impossible to work on symmetrically!

[kitchen_jooklum]

I'm having an issue where after modifying the pivot point and clicking away from the object, the pivot switches back. In the tool settings, I can see it's logging my switch as a "Custom" axis orientation, then swapping back to the "Object" orientation when I click away. Is there a way to turn the "Custom" orientation into the "Object" one?

[佐仓钉宫大法好]

How do you get stuck in the center of the ball? There is no box in the middle of my ball.

[xpduelist]

New question. I am trying to center an object in Maya this object is 3 objects combined. Why does it not center the pivot on the objects correctly? when I try to align it to another object it is clear the pivot is not right.

[hannah]

Thank you! That's really what i want

[cheekibreeki]

Can you do Transformers title intro tutorial for YouTube.

[xpduelist]

so how do you make the pivot snap to the center of the sun?