Showing distance to objects while dragging

Here you can see the marks shown by the guide are based on what your mouse is hovering over.

You can hold alt and hover over an object to see the distance and then use your keyboard to move your selected object and it will update the distance.

alas! I don’t know if somebody already found out, but you can see all the red measurements by clicking inspect in the right side panel along with the design and prototype. they won’t go away unless you decide to go on another panel. no need to hold alt/option.

Thanks for the tips Figma 1! ☺️

You can do something similiar.

1. Select Element.
2. Press alt and hover over element that you want the distance.
3. Use arrow keys to move the selected element (While pressing alt and mouse arrow hover on other element)

This is the perfect workaround until Figma implements it in future releases. Thanks.

Thank you!

1. While holding the Alt/Option key down, drag the object. This will also make a copy of the object, but…
2. Before you drop the object, release the Alt/Option key and wait a second. The original object (the one in the location before the move) will disappear.
3. Drop the object.

You have now moved the object with distances shown without making a copy of it.

This worked perfectly and is the only explanation for the problem I was having. Thank you!