Help With Moving Entities

[Nthan]

Hey guys,

I'm wondering if you could help me. I'm new to DraftSight and currently learning the basics. Been through most of the tutorials that DraftSight have to offer, and haven't been able to grasp the move tool in a way I thought it might work.

Say for example, I have a 100x100mm square and within that square I have a much smaller rectangle of 25x25mm. How would I go about using the move tool to position the smaller rectangle a certain amount of mm from the left line of the much larger square. I've tried all sorts of ways in the command line, the closest being absolute (@). The problem I get with this though is that when I specify the point (which in this case is the left line of the square), and input 5mm as the distance, it moves the rectangle 5mm x/y from it's current position on the canvas, rather than the specified point I initially inputted which was the left line of the square. How can I go about moving smaller entities accurately within a much bigger entity like the above example? Thanks in advance for your help, hope to hear from you soon,

Nathan

 

[tr1ntx]

For your 2 rectangle example, I would select the smaller rectangle, click Enter (or Spacebar), pick the lower left corner in the small rect as your "Move from" point, then pick the lower left corner of the large rect as the "Move to" point. Then you can use the absolute movement you've already discovered to move the small rect 5mm from the left side of the large rect, and then use it again to move the small rect up off the bottom line of the large rect.