Edit Bar controls: Interactive, X, Y, Apply, Leave Original, Selection, Repeat From.
This tool allows you to translate, and optionally copy, entities. A Move can be thought of as “sliding” the entities across the project, without any rotation, scaling or other transformation.
Before activating the tool, select the entities to be transformed. Alternatively, if you start the tool without any selected entities you will be first asked to identify a single entity to move.
If you wish to modify the selected entities, ensure the Leave Original option is switch off. If, on the other hand, you wish to modify a copy of the selected entities, switch the option on.
The outcome of whether the transformed entities are selected or not is determined by the Selection option. Select New, Select None, Select Original and Select All.
If you wish the entities to be offset by a specified distance, switch off the Interactive option, enter the X and Y distances and press the Apply button.
If you want to position the transformed entities manually, use the Interactive option and pick a start point for the translation. The point need not be on, or even close to, the selected entities, it is simply a reference point. If you started the tool without any selected entities, the point used to identify the entity to move is used as the start point.
Pick an end point for the translation if you are using the Interactive option.
When picking the second point, if Leave Original is switched off, you can hold the Shift key down to override this setting.
The entities are moved, or copied and moved, relative to the two points picked; from the first point to the second.
If you have selected Leave Original, the new entities are added to the current block.
If Leave Original and Interactive are both switched on then an extra option called Repeat From is added to the edit bar. If this option is switched on, it is possible to select a single "From" point and then as many "To" points as desired (until cancelled).
Constraint Manager
If you have the Constraint Manager active whilst using this tool you will experience the following differences:
- If Leave Original is enabled then all constraints and dimensions are copied from the original entities onto the entities copied, as long as they are satisfied
- If Leave Original is disabled then all constraints and dimensions are preserved on the moved entities, as long as they are satisfied
- If the entities are picked up by clicking on one of the entities being moved and then they are snapped onto an existing entity then a coincident constraint is added between the picked up entity and the entity snapped onto, as long as one or both of the clicks are on points on the entity
Related topics: Selecting, Edit - Transform - Drag, Edit - Transform - Scale, Edit - Transform - Rotate, Edit - Transform - Mirror