There are few things that I remember having issues with in blender. then I was brought to use teh array modifier to create a simple wheel. The tutorial is lacking in that for whatever reason a setting is making all of the arraed items rotate like a snake starting at the empt and then curling back to the empty asi it is rotated. I followed tutorial and this is what I get.
What am I doing wrong. I can not get the cube offset on the Y axis to rotate about the empty.. This is such a simple task but if I can get the objectd to rotate about a fixed length from the empty..... UH!!!Please help.
Your Cube's Origin is inside the Cube' geometry (which is usually a good thing!). Select the Cube (Object Mode) and CTRL+A > Apply Location (and Scale when 'copies' of the Cube in the Array get larger or smaller). That should put the Origin in the center of the 'World':
