diff --git a/src/app/App.tsx b/src/app/App.tsx
index 48c3b7c3..9e4321cf 100644
--- a/src/app/App.tsx
+++ b/src/app/App.tsx
@@ -2810,7 +2810,18 @@ export function App({ store, initialStatusMessage }: AppProps) {
 
     try {
       store.executeCommand(createDuplicateSelectionCommand());
-      setStatusMessage("Duplicated selection.");
+
+      const duplicatedSelection = store.getState().selection;
+      const canGrabDuplicatedSelection =
+        (duplicatedSelection.kind === "brushes" || duplicatedSelection.kind === "entities" || duplicatedSelection.kind === "modelInstances") &&
+        duplicatedSelection.ids.length === 1;
+
+      if (canGrabDuplicatedSelection) {
+        beginTransformOperation("translate", "keyboard");
+      } else {
+        setStatusMessage("Duplicated selection.");
+      }
+
       return true;
     } catch (error) {
       setStatusMessage(getErrorMessage(error));