Im not 100% sure this is what your asking, But If you want to work out the orientation of a object based on the actual mesh information, rather than its transform. I guess you could specify 3 vertex ID's which will allow you to calculate the cross products and derive a orientation that way. The vertex ID's would have to remain the same for it to work though.
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