Something has shifted and I’ve been fighting trying to reconnect these few parts and stuff keeps not connecting, I’ve tried a super small snap and that didn’t help. I tried selecting all and RMB and align to grid. I’m sure I screwed up something simple, can someone send me the link to where this is explained.
Zip file attached if it would help to look at file, this is in upper left corner.
Somehow your schematic has moved off grid.
First:
Make sure you have the correct grid > View > Properties > Grid Settings > Current Grid … set to 50 mil.
Next:
Draw a block around everything on your schematic page
Next:
right mouse click, select and left click “Align Elements to grid”
False alarm, figured it out. Set grid to standard 1.27mm (who’d think free open source software from Europe would be in Inches…) and then align to grid…
Schematic is organised for 50mil, but anything is available, sometimes graphics needs other than 50 mil.
Symbol editor needs 50mil for pin placement, but other for drawing symbols. eg. a transistor.
Yes, but continually changing grids in PCB is generally the normal practice.
If using the mouse, same, unless you hold down the Ctrl key which deactivates the jump to grid.
Different grids are required for different footprint creations also, depending on the packages used.
Edit:
The “Ctrl” key is a nice trick in the Schematic or PCB. Highlight Ref or Value, hold Ctrl down and use mouse to move those labels to an appropriate place off grid if needed for easier readability or to satisfy your OCD
Actually the units in the schematic editor are irrelevant since they don’t correspond to any physical lengths. In the past suggestions have been made to make them unitless.
For the PCB editor you can set the grid to whatever works with the footprints you have. Newer generations of chips and modules are appearing with rounded metric dimensions like one GPS module I have where the pins are 2 mm apart.
