Move multiple walls and columns a certain distance?

[Ean_M]

I have been working with Autodesk Architecture 2015 for the past month on a school project.  The project that I (and a couple other students) are working on is modeling a real life building in Architecture using drawings given to us from a manager of the building.  The dimensioned drawings that we get from him are not always the best, and sometimes we have to make up a dimension to make everything fit well.  Twice now, I have had to move about 10 walls to make this work, and instead of using something simpler, I just redrew all of the walls to make it fit.  Now I have 9 walls and 2 columns that are currently all properly aligned to eachother, but are 5' 5.25" off from the rest of the building.  After looking through most of the menus in the program, I cannot seem to find a tool to move multiple objects at once.

Long story short: I am wondering if there is some tool that I can use to shift/move all of these objects (hopefully at once) to the correct location?

~Ean M.

Junior at the Dayton Regional STEM School

[dbroad]

Stretch or move?

After selecting objects, enter the displacement and hit enter key for second point.

[Ean_M]

To answer your question, I am wanting to move them all a certain distance (to be exact, the distance is 5'5.25").  Also, Where is the input field for the displacement number?

[dbroad · Accepted solution]

It wasn't really a question.  It was really an indication of a choice that you need to make.  (Move or stretch).  They both have advantages.  If you don't understand what a displacement is, you really need to refer to a textbook or the help files as they are better described there than I can post here.

Here is a link to a simple explanation.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-the-move-command-in-autocad-2014.html

[Ean_M]

Thank you very much for the reference to the dummies.com page, it answered my question fully.  Before when I had used the move tool, I only thought it could freely move the objects around, but now I see how to actually move the objects in a reasonable fashion.

[dbroad]

You're welcome.  Glad to help.