How would I change a cframe's position while keeping its orientation?

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#1

I’m not sure how to do this. Multiplying the cframe by Vector3.new(0, 0, 0) and then adding the desired position doesn’t work. For some reason multiplying the position by 0 didn’t change it.

#2

Just fill up the first 3 arguments.
CFrame.new(10,10,10)

#3

Once you have that how do you set that cframe’s orientation to a part’s orientation without setting the cframe’s position to the part’s position as well?

#4

Here you go.

local PosCFrame = CFrame.new(0,0,0)
local RotCFrame = part.CFrame
local CombinedCframe = CFrame.new(PosCFrame.X, PosCFrame.Y, PosCFrame.Z, select(4, RotCFrame:components())
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#5 
local model = workspace.Model

model:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(model:GetPrimaryPartCFrame() * CFrame.Angles(0,math.rad(90),0)) -- cf.angles uses radians, so use math.rad to convert into degrees

Keep in mind that SetPrimaryPartCFrame and GetPrimaryPartCFrame will be deprecated in the future.

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#6

From what I understand, you want to make two parts have a same orientation while having different positions.

Just do

local rotationComponentA = partA.CFrame - partA.Position
partB.CFrame = rotationComponentA + newPosition

or

partB.CFrame = partA.CFrame
partB.Position = newPosition -- this doesn't disrupt the rotation component

What, why?

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#7

It will be deprecated for pivots. My bad, I think GetPrimaryPartCFrame will stay.

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