Carrara 1.x to 2.1 You may have the "center" and hotspot of the object locked. Try hitting Caps lock and attempt to move the dot. Carrara 3.x In the properties tray, select the object and in the tray, under the motion tab, there's a checkbox to lock the center and hotspot. Uncheck it and move the dot(hotspot) and then re-check the lock checkbox. There's some buttons in the properties tray that are a titch confusing. Basically one will move the object's center to the Hotspot and the other will move the hotspot to the object's center. Be careful not to hit those buttons. I did and had to redo about a hours' worth of work (it was an animation). Because of that, I often write down the coords of the various objects I have in a scene, center, hotspot, etc. hth