I try to get used to the transform tool/manipulator in Alias.
There is one thing, that i don't like (but prefer using the manipulator in Maya):
The planes on the manipulator indicating a transformation on two axes work fine with translations.
But these planes are solely bound to translation.
When short clicking on a cube (for scaling) the center icon will switch to a cube so i can scale in all three directions, but the planes arent.
Working with SubDs, this is a very handy feature speeding up the process
