What's the best way to move this object?

[Whoopdigger]

I was able to move my square to the center of my rectangle, but I think there is a faster way. What is faster than my method?

0. I changed my osnap to midpoint only

1. Selected square, found midpoint

2. Moved to middle point on far right rectangle's verticle line

3. Selected square, found midpoint

4. Moved left and found center between rectangle

If I simply find square's midpoint and try to move to center of rectangle, it will not osnap to that point

Clarification 

http://i.imgur.com/NSZenwD.jpg

[Kent1Cooper]

Welcome to these Forums!

"Mid Between 2 Points" object snap is what you want, if that's not what you used to find the middle of the square.  [Ctrl+right-click for a pop-up list of object-snap modes (it's near the top, in 2015), or type m2p.]  Move only once, directly from the mid-of-2 point in the middle of one rectangle [which you can get by snapping to either opposite corners or midpoints of opposite edges while in m2p] to the same on the other rectangle.

[Whoopdigger]

Whenever I CTRL+Right Click on Midway Between 2 Points cmd gives me _m2p Unknown command "M2P". Press F1 for Help

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

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@Whoopdigger wrote:

Whenever I CTRL+Right Click on Midway Between 2 Points cmd gives me _m2p Unknown command "M2P". Press F1 for Help

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You must be doing that at the Command: prompt.  It's not a command, but an object snap mode.  You must use it inside a command where it's asking for a point [at both the base point and second point prompts in the case of the Move command in your example situation].

[3wood]

Hi Kent,

I remember in previous version, there is a routine to make a shortcut '' (2 strokes) to present "m2p", which is very convenient.

But now it doesn't work (I think from AutoCAD 2010?). How to make it work again?

I attached the code here. Thanks a lot.

(defun C: ()(princ "_mtp")) ;type '' as a transparent shotcut of "mtp" to find middle point of two points

[Whoopdigger]

Thanks for your help, this worked.