KiCad 4 is full of awesome improvements, but I can’t seem to find any way to spread out the components - the Glob Move and Place option is no longer in the context menu when in footprint mode. Anyone figure that out yet?
Which mode are you in? I haven’t figured out how to do glob(al) move and place (did you know that’s what it stands for??) in OpenGL mode, but if I switch back to the standard mode, it should be there when the “Footprint” mode is activated.
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Yep, make sure you are using the legacy renderer and not the OpenGL or cairo renderers!
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Aha! The first thing I do when I get to Pcbnew is switch the OpenGL mode because it’s so darn snazzy. Thanks!
It’s a good thing they abbreviated that, two more letters would have made it way too long!
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I always liked (and will continue) thinking of it as “Oh, we’ll I’m moving a ‘glob’ of parts” 
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Today I Learned that there are things in KiCad that I didn’t even know about because I only ever worked in the OpenGL canvas 