The H-Factor

Grips, IMHO, are the best thing AutoCAD ever added to their program. When they first came out, everyone freaked out (myself included) and we turned them off until we got a better, um, grip on them.

Many (most?) people use grips to move a single object. But, they can be handy to use many objects at once, too.

Look at the image below. All four heads are amongst lights, and I want to move them all down 16 inches:

Pick each item to highlight it:

Now, hold the SHIFT key down and select each of the four grips, then release the SHIFT key:

This makes each grip be a 'hot' grip. You can now pick any one of them to move all four items at once:

Wih ORTHO on, I point down and type in 16 and press enter to move the heads that distance:

Try it out!