Translating multiple component designators as a group

[basketofkittens]

I've been tearing my hair out here for a bit and I can't seem to make sense of this.

I've got a large-ish grid of passives on my board that are grouped densely enough to where I need to relocate all the component designators to a separate area of the board.

I have no problems filtering the designators to select only the ones I want, but that's where I hit a wall. If I grab one of the designators, only the one I grabbed will move. The others stay in place. I've tried unlocking the primitives on the components, creating a union of the designators, and various other things. The alignment tools also choke on them in strange ways. Selecting the designators and choosing "Distribute horizontally/vertically" or "Increase horizontal/vertical spacing" spreads them apart in decidedly non-uniform ways.

Moving single designators works just as you would expect, but there's seemingly no way to move multiple designators as a group. Any ideas?

I would very much like to avoid having to move them one by one, as there are quite a few of them and I'm unsure of exactly how to place them to make them fit in their new positions.

Thanks!

[Psi]

Unfortunately i don't think you can in older versions.
It looks like they've added it into Altium Designer 10 in update 10.818.23272

If they're in a grid probably the quickest way is to work out a new X/Y start and X/Y step value, write down the grid in excel and then just set each ones X/Y position individually to match the table by doubleclicking and typing the X/Y position.

[basketofkittens]

I guess I'll be moving them manually then. Ugh.

At least now I know it wasn't my fault. Thanks!