Move Tool

The Move tool allows to move the selection. It allows to move vertices, edges, prims, groups of prims, instances etc.

Tool Settings

The Move tool has the following parameters displayed in the Tool Settings panel:

Attribute	Description
Axis Orientation	Allows to select the mode gizmos are oriented: Object - Relatively to the selected object rotation; World - Relatively to the global coordinates.
Pivot	Allows to enter the pivot edit mode or reset its position.
Snap	Snap moving preferences.

Snap Moving

Snap Mode can be toggled using the toolbar or the Tool Settings panel.

Snap Mode	Description	Demo
Off	By default snapping is disabled. This allows for free movement of the object without any snapping constraints.
Absolute mode	Uses the global coordinates. On starting the object editing in this mode, they will be aligned to the nearest available point.
Relative mode	The snapping is performed relative to the object’s Pivot point.
Grid	Snaps the pivot point to the nearest point on the Viewport grid.
Vertex	Snaps the pivot point to the nearest vertex of another selected object.
Edge	Snaps the pivot point to the nearest edge of another selected object.
Edge Center	Snaps the pivot point to the center point of the nearest edge of another selected object.
Face Center	Snaps the pivot point to the center point of the nearest face of another selected object. This provides a way to precisely align objects to the center of a surface.
Object Surface	Snaps the pivot point to the nearest point on the surface of another selected object. This allows for aligning objects to any point on a surface, even if it’s not a vertex or edge.

The step scope for Absolute and Relative modes can be specified via Snap attribute in the Tool Settings panel. It supports integer and float numerals.

Edit Pivot

It is possible to manipulate the Pivot point using the Move tool.

Note

This ability is based on XformCommonAPI, which does not support rotation. That is why the Pivot point can only be moved.