Selected meshes move in different directions

Selected meshes move in different directions

souper197
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Selected meshes move in different directions

souper197
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I'm following a tutorial in Maya for modeling a guitar. I created it vertically rather than horizontally as in the video so this might explain why my model acts differently. When I select all the meshes and try to move them, one part moves in the intended direction and others move in another direction. For example, when I move the neck in the positive z-direction, the body moves in the negative y-direction and the bridge pins in the positive y-direction. How do I make them move together in the same direction? I also want to do this to rotate it all and make it horizontal like in the video.

 

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ShinyShadow41
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That's because objects have different orientation. You can move them together by grouping the objects and moving the group or you can set the Move Tool's Axis Orientation to World (hold W key and drag left mouse button then select World from the appearing menu or press W and go to Tool Settings and set it from here).

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souper197
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This fixed the problem. Thank you.

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