I've always wondered what the little circle you can pull outside of some brush-based entities was. Its hard to name, so it is hard to look up in, say, the valve developer wiki.
It is the origin of the brush entity. This is mainly used with moving entities when you have a path away from the centre of the brush that you want it to follow, or you want the brush to rotate around a different part of the entity.
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