MULTIPLE SELECTION OPERATION

[Tom Krowka]

I have a door, slab pieces around the door that act as trim, obviously the walls, and a piece of slab under the door that is separate from the floor slab.

How can I drag, stretch, whatever, all those pieces at once a certain distance.

I have tried selecting them all within the marquee and dragging them,also stretching them, but only one type of element will move, even though they all have selection dots.

I tried selecting all the pieces with the arrow tool, then dragging, but again, only one type of element moves.

Moving them all individually is time consuming. There must be a way to do this.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Tom wrote:
I have a door, slab pieces around the door that act as trim, obviously the walls, and a piece of slab under the door that is separate from the floor slab.

How can I drag, stretch, whatever, all those pieces at once a certain distance.

You cannot.

I have tried selecting them all within the marquee and dragging them,also stretching them, but only one type of element will move, even though they all have selection dots.

Actually, it should not be one element type ... you can move multiple doors (and windows) at once inside the same wall, or any number of other element types at once ... but you cannot move doors and other elements at the same time. So, the process can take two steps for each wall ... move the door(s), then move the other elements.

There has been a wish for quite some time (I cannot find it at the moment) that doors and windows could be grouped with each other and/or with other objects. This is not possible now.

In your case, you can group all of your trim and threshold slabs per door so that it is easier to move them as a group. (Or, if this is a very common thing, I suppose you could create a custom door that includes all of that.) Not what you want to hear, I know.

Moving them all individually is time consuming. There must be a way to do this.

Should be two steps, rather than one ... irritating, but not that time consuming I don't think.

Note: if you are stretching in a way that moves the entire wall containing the door(s), then the doors and your other elements will all move. But, if you are stretching along the length of the wall, then only things other than the doors and windows will move...with the wall itself stretching if the marquee includes at least one wall end-point.

Searching, I don't see a wish that addresses this issue directly (marquee stretching affecting door/window location as an option, and grouping doors/windows with each other and other objects) ... so perhaps you might want to post it.

Karl