Can someone please explain to me what I’m doing wrong when trying to move objects. I have an object that I’m trying to position multiple holes by adding negative parts. I have all the holes in the object and need to space them appropriately, however the Move Tool constantly changes the values I type in. It literally took me more than an hour to get the center hole placed correctly, and I’ve now spent even more time than that on the second one and it’s still not there - and there are 19 more to go after that one. At this rate it will take me months just to get the objects in position.
I’ve made a screen recording showing what I’m trying to do and what’s happening instead. I can’t find a way to directly place it here so I’ve attached a link to in on OneDrive. In the video you can see that no matter how many times I input the position I want the object to be at, as soon as a tab or click away it changes to something else. Occassionally, as you’ll see at the end, it seems to finally accept the values as I tab around, however once I close the Move Tool it shifts anyway and opening the tool back up with show where it’s really at (not where I put it).
If anyone can explain to me what I’m doing wrong I would certainly appreciate it.
Thanks for the reply. It does do the same thing with all objects, with maybe a few exceptions as to when it does it. It doesn’t seem to happen (at least I haven’t noticed it) on a new project until at least some time and quite a few modifications in. If I create a project and just put in 2 or 3 objects they do fine. Once I’ve got several objects and they’re all interacting with each other, then the move issue starts.
As far as the arrows, they don’t give me exact options. The 21 negatives you see were all moved to their location in the image by the arrows, but the arrows always move some random increment between 0.08mm and 0.18mm - and they never land on an even mm (x.00) coordinate. Relying solely on the arrows would make what you see the most exact the placement could get. The keyboard arrows do move me in exact amounts (10mm with an arrow or 1mm with shift+arrow), but since dragging the arrows with the mouse will never land me on an even x.00 as a starting point, the keyboard arrows can never get me there either.
I finally got past this on this print by persisting until the center column of 3 objects were aligned on the Y axis. I then merged them and deleted all the rest, followed by making a copy and aligning it, then merging that and continuing until I had them all in the correct place. That left me only needing to fight through it 3 more times after the first column was done.
As long as I know it’s not me and it’s actually supposed to do what I’m trying to do, I’m going to experiment with it some more when I get some free time and see if I can figure out if some specific thing seems to be the trigger that starts it since it does start off working like I expect it to.
If you are able to move the object by the arrows then that proves you have independent movement ability. However, you didn’t answer the one question; can you select individual objects from within the model menu?
It’s not obvious on the example you provided but based on the brackets, it looks like you actually have a top layer object selected as opposed to your object you want to move. The way to prove or disprove this is to use the object menu on the left. Then try to manipulate the objects. Unfortunately, if you have objects that are too close to one another and try selectin them with a mouse, it’s often time too hard to select the actual component you want to move. That and the fact that we can’t see what’s underneath your model, it’s hard to tell what’s actually going on.
If you can share the model or 3MF file, now that we have the new upload feature it will be easier to examine the underlying model and perhaps help decipher why this is causing selection issues.
I think I’ve isolated the issue to being something caused by the specific file I started with. The base was a downloaded file that has some strict licensing about not publicly revealing any modifications made to it, that’s why I only showed it from one angle and kept most of it hidden from view so that none of my other numerous modifications would be visible. Of course, that also means I can’t upload it here.
As far as object selection, I could always select each individual rectangle from either the object list on the left or with the mouse on the actual object. Had a profile been shown you could easily see that the top of the negative rectangles stood several mm above the surface of the underlying object (the underlying object is actually slanted, so I created the negative rectangles large enough to incorporate the slant using one common size for all of them.
To make something I could upload I cut the entire base off and created a new file with just the upper several millimeters of the object, then shut it all down last night and went to bed. Then today when I opened up that file everything moved perfectly as I would expect. Different projects also worked today without any movement issues. Thinking I was losing my mind I opened the prior project with the full object - and immediately the movement issues returned. And once the problem returned it was present across all projects in all open Bambu Studio windows. I then shut all the projects back down and, sure enough, if I even just open the project that I was working on - even the original download with no changes whatsoever by me - all subsequent Bambu Studio windows suddenly have movement problems. Close them all down and open them back up without ever opening the project in question, and the movement issues are once again gone.
So, that whole project is being relegated to the trash bin. I don’t know if something simply got corrupted in my particular download, but I don’t intend to download it again and even check - I’ve spent so many hours fighting with it I don’t even care to see it again and there are other options readily available to me that will serve the same function for me.
Thanks again for taking the time to reply and help me out, and sorry that it really just turned out to waste your time.
Thanks for closing the loop. I am glad you were able to overcome the issue.
Depending on how motivated you are to get to the bottom of this—personally, I hate unsolved mysteries when they happen to me—one thing you might try, if you still have the old project, is to change the printer profile to something else and also change the process profile to something else, just to see if that has any effect.
There is also another very remote possibility that your file was somehow corrupted. There is an obscure option found at the bottom of the right-click menu on the model. You might want to try changing the unit of measure. I’ve only had to do this with third-party models where I thought I was importing something scaled to millimeters when, in fact, it was in meters or inches.
it will be easier to examine the underlying model and perhaps help decipher why this is causing selection issues.
