Sketch objects won't move from browser on new design, but ones on old design will

[cheesehandtwo]

I've been doing multiple revisions on a project for the last few months (since January or so), every once in a while getting a sketch object that wants to tease me about not wanting to move, but usually goes away with a save and restart. However, after starting a new revision just yesterday, I'm noticing that my sketch objects just will not move in the way I have done so for the last while, being that I can right click the sketch object in the browser, get a Move/Copy option, and simply move it in such a way that is actually sane to my workflow.

I can get them to move (albeit, much more limited) from the Edit Sketch menu after deleting the Origin coincident/constraint, but this does not give me the ease of use nor level of usability that I need out of moving the sketch object. For some reason no matter what I do, whether it's removing constraints, changing the sketch plane, whatever it is, will not let me move it from the browser, while new sketch objects in my older file will.

No amount of googling or forum scavanging is providing anything close to what I'm looking for, only as far as the Origin coincident/constraint issue which does not solve my issue. Below are images of what they look like in the browser tree and a video literally hopping between the different files, and both files (with most of the "personal" parts removed but I did a sanity check to make sure nothing changed because of it)

Freshly created object from the old file:

Freshly created object in new file:

2023-05-18 21-48-35.mp4

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[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

A few points:

1. You can only Move an entire sketch object (as selected from the browser) in a Direct Modeling design.  That is the difference between the designs in your video.  Move is prevented on a sketch in a Parametric design.  It has nothing to do with old vs new.
2. You can only Move sketch geometry (lines, arcs, curves, text, points, etc) when editing a sketch (in both Parametric and Direct Modeling designs).  At 0:10 in your video, you select a profile (the shaded area), and right click:
   
   a profile is not a sketch primitive and cannot be Moved, either.  Instead, if you select the lines bounding that profile, you will be able to Move them
3. As you pointed out, if your sketch geometry selection happens to include a fixed point (the origin, or even a fully constrained point), Move will come up, but will not actually do anything.  You have to select geometry that is free to Move

Hope this helps clear up the confusion a bit.

[cheesehandtwo]

Pretty sure this is the first time I've seen this pop up, but now that I've disabled it, it does indeed work. I don't think I'm qualified enough to say whether this is intuitive design or not, but I never saw a prompt or note about that being differenciated in any design I've made.

Thanks for the help.