Hello Kelly, It sounds like you may be working with grouped objects when this happens. A group of objects can be rotated in the Assembly room. But when you open the group alone in a new assembly room window, it will show up "perfectly aligned" along the XYZ axis. However, the hot point will move in the direction of the Unversal Space (the main scene), not the World Space (the new Assembly Room window) - even if the hot point arrows align with the XYZ axis in the grouped objects assembly room window. Mark