Moving group of objects with xyz coordinates

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I was curious if it was possible to move a group of objects by xyz coordinates. What I have going on are clusters of objects positioned in various locations that took quite awhile to get alinged and I’m going back to create these objects as instances of others to slim down on file size and possibly gain some performance. What I’m needing to accomplish is to create the new instance objects from one cluster and then move them exactly where the old ones used to be using xyz coordinates.

Is i possible to do something of this nature?

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I’m not sure that’s what you want but you can move one or more objects by entering X Y Z coordinates :

  • select your objects
  • press G to translate them, move your mouse anywhere, it’s not important and LMB click.
  • in the tools panel (press T if it’s not displayed) go on the bottom OR press F6, this is settings for your previous action.
  • now you can enter some XYZ coordinates like 1m for X, 2m for Y and 0m for Z and this will edit your last translation.
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That works for objects one by one, but when i use the transform properties toolbox to move everything i’ve selected by xyz, it only moves the last object that was selected from the group. What I’m needing to be able to grab the cluster of objects, then that cluster of objects have it’s own center point that can be moved by xyz instead of individually. I was curious if something like this would be doable using groups as im not too familiar with how groups work in blender?

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parent them all to an empty and then adjust the position of the empty using numerical input

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phreak : If you’ve selected all the objects of your group before you did your translation, the previous operation properties panel is supposed to affect the whole group.
Anyway, as says Modron, you can parent your group to an empty, then it will be easier, especially if you will need to move this group again in the future.

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Turns out using parenting works out just fine for what i was trying to accomplish. I think i was trying to make the situation more complex then it actually was…i tend to do that quite often. Thank you guys for the help, It is greatly appreciated!