How to move several geometries as a whole?

I made a series of surfaces, and I want to repeat all of them in another place in the architecture, but I don't know how to move them to the place. To move every surface of them is a big project and unscientific evidently, please help me!

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Permalink Reply by Mitch Heynick on April 9, 2010 at 4:45am

Well, I don't know exactly what you're trying to do, but in the simplest of cases, you should be able to feed your collection of surfaces or whatever into the Move component and provide a translation vector. In that case the geometry is moved (copied) but not rotated. Otherwise, look at Orient to do a translation and rotation simultaneously. All in the Euclidean section of the XForm menu. --Mitch

Permalink Reply by Joyce Shun on April 9, 2010 at 4:58am

I know your meaning, but there are several parts not only one geometry, what I want to move all of as an entity, not to move each of them to the new place. Do you know how to operate that? If you know please tell me, thank you!

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 9, 2010 at 5:17am

Hi Joyce,

Unless you Join the parts together with either Boolean Union (Solids) or BRep Join they will always be handled by GH as separate entities.

If you do not wish to have multiple wires going into your move component, why not collect them together in a BRep Component (Params>Geomerty>BRep). That why you only have to feed in wires once.

If you want to move your entities to more than one location then you will need to pass the vectors through a Graft Component before pluging into the Move Component otherwise the first vector will be used on the first object and the second on the second and so on.

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