2 or more shape nodes under a single transform

[grantl]

Anyone know how to have 2 (or more) shape nodes under a single transform??

I swear that i just used to display shapes in the outliner and middle mouse drag a shape from one transform to another. This seems to parent the transform under aswel as the shape...!
I also tried with the -s (shape) flag using the 'parent' command, this just creates a new transform under the target transform!?!

Free good karma to anyone who can answer this for me :
cheers

Grant.

[failure]

You must specify the shape node, not the transform node:

parent -add -shape nurbsSphereShape1 nurbsSphere2

[grantl]

thank you muchly!
It was the -add flag i was missing, doesn't work without it...!?

[joojaa]

alernatively it eorks in conjunction with -r flag!

[japunto]

Yeah, I use the parent -shape -relative version of this, too. Here's a link to a script for doing this from a button.
http://www.understandingmaya.com/multiShapeTransform.mel
It cleans up after itself by deleting the empty transform that results, checks for a proper selection and a few other housekeeping tasks, -- of course, feel free to change as you see fit!

-JP