Having real problems moving stuff

[lightpanther]

Hi There. Pretty new to SU.

At th emoment the thing I seem to be having the most difficulty with is moving things around. I understand that SU will offer to move things on axes, and by pressing and holding "shift" it will supposedly lock to this axis (that doesn't always seem to work?)

The typical problem I am having goes like this: I will have a chair, say, which has become partly "submerged" in a floor, so obviously I want to raise it out. Selecting the move tool, I try to get SU to offer me the vertical axis, but instead it seems determined to offer me another one. Meanwhile, while I'm trying to get it to move on the axis I want, it starts moving, or even snapping to crazy places far off in the room, along other axes, or in ways I don't want...while I'm trying to get it to offer me the axis I want. Also, even when I do get that axis offered, and press and hold shift, it still sometimes doesn't seem to stick to that axis and will suddenly shoot off and try to lock itself to a face on a distant wall, or something like this.

It's very frustrating. Obviously I am doing something important in the wrong way, or the must be a better way of doing this. What am I missing please?

[Box]

I answered this in the other forum.
And here is a video I did ages ago that relates to your problems.
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[lightpanther]

That's a great video. I'll need to watch it several times.

[pbacot]

Sometimes I exaggerate the move in the axis I want, in order to get the move to offer that axis. For me the shift usually works fine to hold the direction.