I did just discover something new and odd in trying different methods to fix this… if I re-group a group, sometimes I can get my axes to reset. Meaning I have a group that’s not behaving in the way I feel like it should when I switch between local and world axes, if I just group it again, it will switch the axes up. This feels a bit like a bug to me… is that how it’s supposed to behave?
I should note that re-grouping the original ceiling mesh did not help when I went to duplicate it, so the original problem remains. 