move a building object

[florianfreitag]

Hello everyone,

I'm doing my first steps with FreeCAD (especially with the arch workbench).
I am really happy about this fine piece of software.
However, on a problem I'll just not on.

I have a house drawn and created from a building object. Now I would like to move the object. Rotates I have the object already successful.

My approach:
1. Click on the object by right-clicking
2. Choose UTILITIES > SELECT GROUP
3. Move
start coordinate
x: 0 y: 0 z: 0
end coordinate
x: -6000 mm y: -2500 mm z: 0

As a result, the house was indeed moved but in the roof, the walls were uncut with a sloping roof. So the walls are again out of the roof.
So you can imagine better what my problem is I hang the project file here as an appendix. The object that I want to move with the above parameters is Building001 (I copied that from object Building and then rotated it).

start:

screen1.jpg (230.76 KiB) Viewed 2306 times

selection:

screen2.jpg (272.85 KiB) Viewed 2306 times

result:

screen3.jpg (283.86 KiB) Viewed 2306 times

Update:
I've tests some more things and I saw these little blue checkmarks on my symbols after I rotated the Building object. Some search on Google turned out that I have to "recompute" with Ctrl + R to get the blue checkmarks away. Done so and the building turned to screenshot with result. Even after rotating. So I think in the case I described above there is a problem with rotating because the move command does a recompute and so the "error" occurs. But the error occurs also if I recompute after rotating.

FreeCAD about data:
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6698 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: master
Hash: ca7c5d31a4d61f32a25b71025b14641a6e378328
Python version: 2.7.6
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

Sorry for my English, I hope it is understandable.

Many greetings

Florian

edit:
- added screenshots for better understanding

[yorik]

Hi,

Yes there are still many problems with moving objects when other objects depend on them... There are basic questions that I'm still not sure how to solve, for ex: You have one object, you subtract a second object from the first one. If you then move the first object, should the hole created by the second one move as well? What if you want to move only the base object and not the hole? This is not always obvious.

In any case, the safest way is always to move only the final objects. That is, instead of automatically select all the contents of a group, which could include sub-parts, select manually the objects you want to move. This should give much safer results.

This is still a bit of a hassle, but in the new PartDesign, there is a new "body" object that I plan to use in Arch at some point.. This would allow to assemble objects as if they were one, and move/rotate as one object, I think this will be a huge improvement.

[damian]

Hi Community:

there is a new "body" object that I plan to use in Arch at some point..

The Part Design Next is awesome!

It's a little difficult to find explanations about the new work flow. This link helped me

viewtopic.php?f=3&p=132054

Thank Development Team

[sgrogan]

The Part Design Next is awesome!

It's a little difficult to find explanations about the new work flow. This link helped me

viewtopic.php?f=3&p=132054

Thanks damian for this link I had missed it!

[florianfreitag]

Thanks @yorik for the explanation and thanks @damian for the link.

Now I have to see to deal with that.