BUG footprint move grid

Hello, I’m not new to KiCad, but on the latest version, a bug is bothering me a lot:

  • I’ve set a grid.
  • If I move a footprint by clicking anywhere (like in the older versions), I’m sure I won’t be aligned with the grid anymore; it’s frustrating!

It seems I have to move it specifically from the anchor point.

I want to clarify that all my footprints have overall dimensions perfectly aligned with the grid. I designed them that way.

Do you have any ideas on how to solve this? It’s always uncertain if I’m on the grid in the end…

Hi @Sylvain_Mahe

Do you have Preferences > Preferences > PCB Editor > Display Options > Snap to Grid set to always?

Apart from jmk’s suggestion, KiCad also has: PCB Editor / Preferences / Preferences / PCB Editor / Editing Options / Magnetic Points ( for Pads, tracks and graphics).

It is also not very clear what the exact behavior is from your description. Normally, the cursor snaps to either the anchor point or the center of a pad when moving a footprint. This is quite obvious with larger footprints, but sometimes it’s not so clear (for small footprints, or when a pad is near the footprint center). And after the move, the point you grabbed the footprint with is placed on the grid. This behavior has been the same for several KiCad versions.

If you turn the “snap to grid” off completely, then it would not align even with:

Ok thanks, strange…

This is not work for me, Ubuntu 22 latest kicad…
My option : grid always

What KiCad version are you using?
Screenshots in French make it a bit difficult for me, I also don’t know why they have a “flagged by the community” tag, This prevents them from being seen by most people.

The left “tree” side of the screenshot is also missing. And I can not find the a “page” in the settings with the same layout. Yours has “Cross-probing”, and that only shows for the Display options. Are you sure it is for the display options of the PCB editor. For you it also shows 3 options, while I see 4 or 5.

I am using KiCad V7.0.9 and my screenshots look like:

In Linux, you can press the [Print Screen] key to make a screenshot, and this gives you a 1:1 copy of the screen pixels, and there are many ways to handle it afterward (save, put on clipboard, load in graphic program etc) but those options depend on the screenshot program you use. There should be a usable program by default though.

The images are in ibb dot co server, the forum software prevented further links automatically. Screenshots can be pasted here directly if you have used the forum for some time to gather privileges. Also, fully digital workflow is preferred for screenshots, like Paul said.

This was a system thing, not a member. Multiple links to outside site by new user. I released them and then promoted the user a level.

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Hi thanks

Kicad version : 6.0.2+dfsg-1

Pcb menu : Always
Schematic menu : Always

You need vidéo to watch the bug ?

No.

KiCad V6.0.2 is ancient. I recommend you update to KiCad V7.0.9 first. Updates from KiCad V6 to KiCad V7 should be fluent and easy (But once a project is saved in V7 format you can not go back to V6).

If you do not want to go to KiCad V7, then you should at least update to KiCad V6.0.11. Increments in the third number are bug fix updates, and a rough guess is that between V6.0.2 and V6.0.11, around 700 or so bugs have been fixed. for an overview, look at: https://www.kicad.org/blog/categories/Release-Notes/

Also, There is a lot of development going on in KiCad. A bug fix release is made approximately once each month, so if you have some bug, always consider updating KiCad first because your bug may already have been fixed.

Ok I apt-get-update soon and try.

First update last day m’y .mod and .lib Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 22…

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