MOVE — Move

Moves objects from a base point to another point.

• Command: MOVE · Global name: _MOVE · Alias: M
• Ribbon: Home › Modify
• Menu: Modify
• Toolbar: Modify

Moves the selected objects a distance and direction given by two points: the base point and the destination point. The objects keep their shape, size and orientation.

Usage

1. Enter MOVE (or M) or click Move on the ribbon.
2. Select the objects and press Enter. If they were already selected before starting the command, they are used without asking.

Select objects:

3. Specify the base point: the point of the objects you want to take somewhere else.

Specify base point or [Displacement] <Displacement>:

4. Specify the destination point. While you move the cursor you see where the objects will go.

Specify second point or <use first point as displacement>:

Notes

• The second point can be typed as relative (@100,0) or polar (@50<45) coordinates from the base point, or as a single distance, applied in the direction of the cursor (handy with Ortho, F8).
• With no command running you can also move with grips: select the objects, click a grip and press Space until the move mode.

Specify move point or [Base point/Copy/eXit]:

• In 3D points can be typed with Z: x,y,z or @dx,dy,dz (e.g. base 0,0,0 and destination @0,0,3 lifts the objects 3 units). A point without Z lies at the current elevation (ELEV), and a relative @dx,dy after a 3D point keeps its Z, as in AutoCAD.
• Moving a dimension also moves its block; texts and blocks keep their rotation.
• There is no Displacement option as in AutoCAD: use a base point at 0,0 and type the displacement as destination.

• Displacement option: type the vector (3,4) instead of two points. Enter at the second point uses the base point as displacement.

See also

COPY · ROTATE · ALIGN · STRETCH · Selecting objects · Editing