Move selected elements a given number of points

[mateujover]

I happen to work a lot with elements that are somehow related to each one. Most of the times I have not used the grouping functionality because in general it would burden my editing process with a lot of right-click actions. So I have always preferred to keep all the elements out of groups.

I have thought of a functionality that allows to move the selected items a given number of points in any axis. I think that this would add more flexibility to the editor in a very generalistic way, without imposing a new way of editing the to the long time users like me. No one would have to change its known shortcuts or preferred functionalities.

It is true that, every time I need it, I repeat the following process of, first, grouping all the necessary elements, second, add the necessary number pts to the current placement of the emlement in the "Organization" tab (right panel), and, third, undo the group to keep editing without any unecessary group. It may not be such a recurrent process/action to end up triggering the development of a new tool/functionality for the drawio editor, but I think that it is an idea for you to discuss.

Thank you for the wonderful and very usable drawio editor to the whole team. Cheers!

[alderg]

Try using the cursor keys (1px steps) and shift+cursor (10px steps).