Putting the anchor point of the camera at the center of a cube?

I built a 3d cube and want the camera to spin around it.
I don't want to animate/spin the cube itself, but I want to animate the camera.
Whats the best and quickest way of getting the anchor point exactly at the center of the cube?
At the moment if I place the anchor visually at the center, the camera itself is too close to the cube. I can't create distance between the cube and camera.:s
Thanks,,

Howdy,
When you move an object, you also move the object's anchor point. The easiest way to accomplish what you want is to build a simple camera rig. Place the camera inside a 3D group and position the group's anchor point in the center of the cube. You can then move the camera around as you see fit, and when you want to do your orbit move (I assume that's why you want the anchor in the cube), you animate the group.
Rigs are handy for all sorts of tasks like this. For example, you may want to create a 3D motion path that flies the camera all around a scene, but you also want the freedom to have the camera pan around while flying along the path. Think of it as a camera operator riding in a cable-car.

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> how do I create a 1d array that takes a single calculation and insert
> the result into the first row and then the next calculation the next
> time the loop passes that point and puts the results in thsecond row
> and so on until the loop is exited.
>
> The attached file is work inprogress, with some dummy data sp that I
> can test it out without having to connect to equipment.
> The second tab is the one that I am having the problem with. the
> output array from the replace element appears to be starting at the
> index position of 1 rather than 0 but that is ok it is still show that
> the new data is placed in incrementing element locations. However the
> main array that I am trying to build that is suppose to take each new
> calculation and place it in the next index(row) does not appear to be
> working or at least I am not getting any indication on the inidcator.
>
> Basically what I am attempting to do is is gather some pulses from
> adevice for a minute, place the results for a calculation, so that it
> displays then do the same again the next minute, but put these result
> in the next row and so on until the specifiied time has expired and
> the loop exits. I need to have all results displayed and keep building
> the array(display until, the end of the test)Eventually I will have to
> include a min max section that displays the min and max values
> calculated, but that should be easy with the min max function.Actually
> I thought this should have been easy but, I gues I can not see the
> forest through the trees. Can any one help to slear this up for me.

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