This behaviour is often the result of leaving one of the increment boxes populated within the Parameters for Compass Manipulation dialog, as shown below:

In the example shown above, the part will appear to jump when moved in the U (or X) direction, and will move by 100mm once a certain amount of cursor input has been received. This behaviour can be used to great advantage, if for example a user wants to translate a part in 2mm increments to see how the position appears in the assembly, whilst being able to just drag the mouse and be confident the part will only move in the set increments.

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