Hi Burr,

> How about scale?

Well, scale applies the same scale factor around the same origin point to all the selected objects.

So for example, take 3 individual boxes that overlap each other.

Select them all and run scale, notice how they all scale in the same way, the same as if they were connected?

If you now boolean union those things together into one single object and then do a scale on just that single object, you'll get the same kind of scaled result.

Most of the transforms are like this, they perform the same transformation to all the selected objects so they all stay in their same relative positions... The same with Move, Copy, Rotate, Mirror.... Align is the only one that does not maintain relative positions so far.

- Michael