I've just started to look at Houdini but find the way rotation and translation works a little too pinicky for my liking.

Is there a way to translate in screen space for instance, a la Maya? At the moment I keep having to position an object once for XZ pos and then again in Y to get it in place.

If anyone knows how to make Houdini a little bit closer to Maya when it comes to the simple Xform controls (alt + clicking on handles to lock in axis, alt + click in middle of handles for screen space etc) it'd be great to hear. Or just how to get the Houdini controls to be quicker..?

Thanks!

right click on the handle and select Align Handle - View

Actually view translation/rotation/scaling is much better in Houdini.

You can also simply turn off the grid visibility and the controls becomes in screen space. I like to work that way. So no real need to Align Handle - view I guess…