# Cell Link

- Object
- Shift
- Position
- Change
- Occupancy
- Packing

Set here the translation applied to the child object or list of objects.

When linking a cell to another object, the translation is always applied to the child object: the cell itself when linking above, the other object (cluster, molecule, group, plane, direction, atom, orbital, text) when linking below.

The final child position is given by this translation vector added to the child or parent origin, as defined by the Reference option. By default this is the child origin and the translation vector is 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, so no translation is applied.

When a list of cells is linked above, Reference is set by default to Child, so cells preserve their positions and are not superposed.

When a list of cells is linked below, each cell will be linked to a new, automatically created, child object, and Reference is set by default to Parent, so childs remain near their parent cells and are not superposed.
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