Objects move away from Basepoint with Move Parameter (and they shouldn't)

[ColinPearson]

Hello World.   

I've used all the swear words I know and this block still won't behave!

 

When I use the Move grip and pull this block all the way up, it should extend by 5-7/8" ... instead it extends by 5-3/4" and also moves 1/8" from the Basepoint.  Any clue what's going on here?

 

Thanks in advance y'all!!!

jack.dwg

Edited August 6 by ColinPearson

[ColinPearson]

disregard LOL

 

[CivilTechSource]

You should be using Stretch instead of Move. Move will just move your block and it will not extend it as you mentioned. Is this what you are after?

jack.dwg

Edited 5 hours ago by CivilTechSource

[ColinPearson]

@CivilTechSource  I'm looking to Move actually.  I'm not really showing the cylinder that well, but the cylinder pokes out the bottom and pushes basically that whole box part upwards.  Thank you for checking in on it though!

[CivilTechSource]

Can you highlight at a different color what needs to move up please that would help.

[ColinPearson]

@CivilTechSource sure thing.  I actually figured out the 'misbehavior' based on an earlier response (it was me being stupid of course).  I would love to add another grip to this thing to move the magenta part up and down from either the top or the bottom of the magenta, and have the grips 'slide' with the thing.  So if I move the magenta part up with the top grip, the bottom grip goes along for the ride.  Then if I slide back down with the bottom grip, the top grip goes along for the ride.  I've done that EXCEPT after one round of back and forth it started acting wonky so I went back to the single Move.

 

When I say "bottom", I mean the grip that stays at the bottom of the magenta, not the bottom of the overall block where the Basepoint is.  Obviously that starts at the same spot if the block has been reset (notice this one has NOT been reset), but once the magenta moves up, I want the Basepoint to stay put and the "bottom" grip to stay at the bottom of magenta.  Seems like it should be so easy but I keep not quite getting it right.

 

I'll see if I can find my last attempt before I went back to this single Move version, but this does have the color differentiated.  Thank you

 

jack2.dwg