How to move object or group of curves to a point?

Hi I have a simple question regarding the issue of how I can copy/move an object say like a shape I made (from a set of commands in grasshopper) or a group of curves (from a set of commands in grasshopper) to a specific point? I am aware of options such as offset and move but I am not sure they fulfill what I am achieving for. The only method I could think of is to move the objects via "move" command through X&Y vectors or XYZ vectors separately with respect to the distances from say point x of object to point x of designated point, point y of object to point y of designated point, and etc. Is this the only way?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 17, 2010 at 4:09pm

If you don't want to supply a translation vector for a move operation, how would you like to define the transformation instead?

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David Rutten
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Poprad, Slovakia

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Thomas on July 17, 2010 at 4:54pm

Hey David thank you for your response. I guess I was wondering if there was just a simpler function/command to snap/move objects to specific points. I was thinking too much in Rhino mode where I can easily select an object and move it to a point. If this hasn't been integrated into grasshopper yet perhaps simply there can be a function called move to where it does the vector translation of distances between points automatically where you can input say a midpoint or point of an object and input the designated new point.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 18, 2010 at 2:40am

The Rhino Move command requires two points, the Grasshopper move component requires a single vector. If you have two points you can create a vector using a Vector 2Pt component. I'm not really sure how this could be made "simpler". I could create a component that moves objects to a given location using the BoundingBox center, but wouldn't that be far too limited a feature?

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David Rutten
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Poprad, Slovakia

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Permalink Reply by Etienne Antuszewicz on July 27, 2010 at 10:49am

Hello,

What could be interesting, and maybe it's what Jonathan meant, is a "move" component that would work for several objects at the same time. Because I think that presently we need to apply the move component to every objects separately, isn't ?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Etienne Antuszewicz