Idea for moving along XYZ Axis

[MartinShake]

Hi Stephen
I have been thinking about moving objects in a drawing. How about this for an idea?
When you grab an object with the mouse you can move it anywhere in the XY plane. How about if you hit one of the XYZ keys and hold the mouse button, it just moves in that plane? It would be great for aligning things.

Hope you had a restful weekend!
Martin

[henmedia]

@MartinShake thank you, a move that stays on one line is what helps most when aligning. Part of it is there already: hold Shift while you drag, and the shape moves on one axis only, the one you have dragged further in (X or Y of the workplane), and the other stays where it is. Press Shift once you are already dragging. Up and down goes with the black arrow above the shape. What there is not is a key that picks the axis for you, so that X always means left and right whatever way you drag. Is that what you miss, or does Shift choose the wrong axis for you?

[MartinShake]

The Shift key is fine but sometimes especially near the centre it tries to do a strange diagonal thing. The other limitation with this is you can not use the Z axis. It would be nice to 'lock in' to this axis.

Cheers.

[henmedia]

@MartinShake thanks again. The diagonal jerk was a real flaw and it is fixed: with Shift held, layerling now picks the axis once you have moved the mouse a little and keeps it until you let go of Shift, instead of deciding anew with every move. It is built and comes with the next update.

For Z, moving up and down today goes only with the black arrow above the shape. A key that picks the axis while you drag (X, Y or Z, with Z meaning up) is a good idea, and I have noted it. Would that be what you are after?

[henmedia]

@MartinShake the diagonal jerk with Shift is fixed and out in 1.113.0: the axis is picked once you have moved the mouse a little and stays until you let go of Shift. A key that picks X, Y or Z while you drag is still noted.

[MartinShake]

Stefan, That is so much smoother. Works great now! Thanks as always!