diff --git a/PRIVATE b/PRIVATE
index f7fc61684..c79dc5f1b 160000
--- a/PRIVATE
+++ b/PRIVATE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit f7fc61684a8bc7773fef4ffa129b6788f5b10f83
+Subproject commit c79dc5f1be75f90b0638c230d56c962bfd3b2474
diff --git a/processing/pre/geom_addPrimitive.py b/processing/pre/geom_addPrimitive.py
index dde55ae31..7fcfdbc5c 100755
--- a/processing/pre/geom_addPrimitive.py
+++ b/processing/pre/geom_addPrimitive.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ parser.set_defaults(center = (.0,.0,.0),
 if options.dimension is None:
   parser.error('no dimension specified.')   
 if options.angleaxis is not None:
-  rotation = damask.Rotation.fromAxisAngle(np(options.angleaxis),options.degrees,normalise=True)
+  rotation = damask.Rotation.fromAxisAngle(np.array(options.angleaxis),options.degrees,normalise=True)
 elif options.quaternion is not None:
   rotation = damask.Rotation.fromQuaternion(options.quaternion)
 else: