Direction: With direction, users don’t need red, green or blue axis.

Distance: It help to measure how far along the directional axis are the entities being moved.

Every single time while moving an entity in SketchUp, users will be given a direction and distance. Sometimes, users will know the specific direction and distance they need to move and provide hat input to SketchUp by typing it. If not, then SketchUp will provide a direction and distance by inferencing other points in the model.

Here are two scenarios described with their following steps:

Known Direction and distance: If the distance and direction is known by the user then the following steps are helpful:

• At first, users need to select the entities that need to move with the Select Tool.
• Then users need to activate the Move tool.
• Next they need to click once to start the move.
• Then they need to tap the Right Arrow Key to identify the direction.
• At last, they need to enter the known direction to identify the distance.

*here the users don’t need to click on any particular point in the model or on the entity the need to move as long as the entity is preselected.

Unknown Direction and distance: There are sometimes, when users don’t know the distance or direction that needs to move so here users have to rely on snapping to points in the model to define both of those inputs.

• At first, users need to select the entities that they need to move with the Select tool.
• Then need to activate Move tool.
• Next users need to hover over and snap to the first point on the object. Just click to start the move from the point.
• At last, users need to snap to last point or where they need to align to and click to finish the move.

Known Direction and unknown distance: Unlike the other two, there may be other situations also, where users want to move an object along a specific location, to an unknown distance. Tape Measure tool can be used to figure out the distance.