I'm not clear on your first question, but I'll tackle the second one for you.  Remember we were talking about setting the pivot point on your models in Max (via email) and I said to center the pivot on your models.  Well, that advice makes it easy to later position your models when building your case, however for the special ...

[quote user="mysdn"] To Ned : thanks for the corrections it's better now, but Cabrotation = 45 (or any value) dont do any rotations to the cabinet, it just keeps rotating on its Y axis unrealistically, a cabinet does not rotate on its own.[/quote] I put the spinning cabinet in there to show you that everything moves together as ...

I just finished re-writing your cabinet construction technique and emailed you the new file.  Basically, what I did was take your cabinet width and created the left and right panels at (-width/2,0,0) and (+width/2,0,0).  Repeat similar for top/bottom and front/back.  Also had to add an additional translation to move the assembly ...

Okay. Like Byron said, Translation x Rotation is not the same as Rotation x Translation.  Think of the planet rotating about its axis, but also rotates around the sun.  The proper order is to rotate around the planet axis, translate into position, and then rotate around its orbit. Your code will orbit the cabinet as it stands.  ...

I just sent you an email offering to lend a hand.  No payment necessary.  Looks like you might be close already, but I'm here if you need me.

Sure, no problem.  I'm a tad busy tonight, but I can give this my full attention tomorrow.  How may I contact you?

[quote user="mysdn"] UPDATE : I found this somewhere on this forum, could this be what I'm looking for, thank you A technique often used to attach equipment to a player model is bind points.  The simple explanation is that you just include additional bones in your model, then at run-time attach equipment models to these ...

Well, try looking at this differently.  Suppose you did have a fully featured cabinet model.  To draw the cabinet normally, you would loop through each mesh, set up the World/View/Proj and then mesh.Draw().  Well... I suggest that you intervene slightly by looking at the mesh piece that is about to be drawn, and substitute it with ...

Please take a look at the Simple Animation tutorial because it closely resembles what you're after.  The tutorial shows how to grab the bones of a tank model and individually rotate wheels, turret, etc.  Use this example as a basis for your project.

[quote user="Yakra"] Eh? Uhh there are faces in both editable mesh and editable poly.[/quote] Perhaps its a version thing or I'm just being particular.  In Max 2010, Editable Poly contains Vertex, Edge, Border, Polygon, and Element -- no Face.  Since the OP specifically said Face, I suggested Editable Mesh which is ...