moving buildings

[yoi65]

i have a collection of buildings on a site. i need to move one of the buildings -a 2-storey building- some 10 ft .when i try to move it by selecting both floors in 3d view, it doesn;t seem to move. is this normal.?

to get round this ,i made groups of both floors and saved the original file as other and imported the afore-mentioned groups and tried to move them to desired location.
is this a good way to go about this or is there are more efficient way to resolve this?
thanks

[Andre Carvalho]

If you have a collection of buildings in a site, and if each building has a separated set of CD, the best thing is to link each building into a file containing the topography. It is a lot easier to move up or down the building when it is a link. Once moved, you can select the link, right click and Publish coordinates. The coordinates from the site will be published and shared to the building.

Andre Carvalho

[3dway]

On this topic I've had a great deal of difficulty moving a house on a site. We usually have to maximize area within the setbacks and often twisting the house on the site is the answer. Do you move house or move the site? I find when moving the house or rotating the house you almost always get a "can't keep objects joined" error. Then you have to go back in and dick around with the wall joins that made you pull your hair out the first time that you did them; or even worse, a floor or something unjoins from a wall somewhere in the middle of the volume of the model and it's not obvious. As a new user, I'm finding out how important it is to click the show button when these come up.

[gwnelson]

Andre's suggestion works best - link the house onto your separate site model. Twirl it around, move it up & down, whatever.