I understand what pushmatrix and popmatrix do.. and i''m doing what you say, but it still is not working.... When the screen sets up really small to select something, it draws the objects normally to see what is rendered in that little square.. but when it "draws it normally" it resets the screen to bring the axis''s back.. is there a way i can rotate the axis for a single object rather then the full opengl world?

also, how do you find out where a person clicks? I mean.. obviously you can find out where on the window they click... but how could you find out the x,y values at a specific z location?