You need to be careful what you select. If you select just the pad then E brings up pad properties and changes there will move only the pad. You should select the whole footprint and then hit E.
Thanks, but what concerned me was to my knowledge I was selecting it the same when using “M” to move (successful) as when using “E” to move (not successful)
KiCad is smart enough to select the whole footprint for you when you have a pad selected and hit M because M is meant to move footprints, not pads. This is easily visible on a multi pad footprint.
To move pads you have to edit the footprint in the fp editor or edit pad properties directly.
But this is a mounting hole. So technically the pad is the whole footprint. Still I don’t see how the “Pad Properties” would be able to move the hole and not move the courtyard. Take a look at my screenshot, the top mounting hole with the yellow arrow.
It still seems to me that the software is missing something.
No, a footprint is all the pads + all the drawings. Courtyard is one of the drawings.
When you move the pad it just shifts it’s position relative to the footprint position while every other part of the footprint stays in place. When you move the footprint you move everything together.
