# Rotating the rotational axis?

**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/rotating-the-rotational-axis/44835
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** new-user
**Created:** [March 21, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/rotating-the-rotational-axis/44835 "2003-03-21T01:01:05Z")
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### Author: ![mayawanabe](https://forum.highend3d.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@mayawanabe](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/mayawanabe)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/rotating-the-rotational-axis/44835/1 "2003-03-21T01:01:05Z")

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Does Maya have a way to rotate the rotational axis. I have a few items selected and I want to line up the rotate axis to an arbitrary axis, that is not global or world. So I can rotate on only one axis. Like Max's pivot controls (effect pivot only).

thanks

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### Author: ![gnimmel](https://forum.highend3d.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@gnimmel](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/gnimmel)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/rotating-the-rotational-axis/44835/2 "2003-03-21T14:10:58Z")

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Yes maya can do this. Go into componant mode and use the question mark icon. You can then select and rotate the rotation pivot.

Richard