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+The **Model Transform** dialog is used to translate, rotate or scale the entire model.
+It is opened
+  * via menu item **Model -> Transform... (Ctrl+T)**,
+  * or the "Transform" button in the [[:modeleditor:menureference|application toolbar]].
+Contrary to the [[:modeleditor:skeleton|Joint Inspector]], the **Model Transform** dialog can //not// be used to transform individual joints in a skeleton, a feature that is only useful for static, non-animated models.
+The virtue of the **Model Transform** dialog is that it affects the entire model (the whole skeleton), and that the transformation is applied to all currently selected animation sequences.
+If no animation sequence is selected at all, the default pose (also called the "bind pose") is transformed.
+===== Purpose =====
+The **Model Transform** dialog's main area of application is to adjust newly imported models to the Cafu coordinate system:
+An authoring program might have exported a model in a scale or default orientation that does not agree well with the Cafu coordinate system, or just is different from other models that you already have.
+Use the **Model Transform** dialog to fix such and similar cases easily.

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