I’m trying to access the values that are given when the Axis Orientation of the move tool is set to Component.
For simplicity, I’m trying to align a locator to the position and orientation of a vertex, edge or face component that is selected. I can get the position using the xform command cmds.xform(q=True, ws=True, t=True) however there doesn’t seem to be any way to get the orientation. The various xform rotate queries just give back [0,0,0].
I’ve tried manipMoveContext and manipPivot but haven’t been able to get anything from either.
If I copy the values from the move tool axis orientation, when set to component mode, and use those as the rotation values of the locator then it works perfectly. But I can’t find how to access these values to use in a Python script.

Any help greatly appreciated.