Yes, it’s possible. (Or at least, it should be)
I have been doing that regularly, even in previous KiCad versions.
I made a lot of use of it in:
(In short: There are no “footprints” in Gerber files, so part of the task was to remove pads and place new footprints from KiCad’s libraries over all the track ends.
There does seem to be a bug in the new KiCad V6.
I’ve had some trouble with grabbing a footprint by a pad.
You should just be able to hover over a pad, and then press m for move, but a few days ago this did not work at all for me. No matter how hard I tried, it only grabbed a footprint by it’s center.
You can change the settings for magnetic points (pads, tracks, graphics) in:
Pcb Edtior / Preferences / Preferences / PCB Editor / Editing Options / Magnetic Points
But even when I set snap to Pads to Always it did not work as expected.
Right now I’ve done some tests on another PCB. 0603 capactiors now do work as expected, but if I try to grab a LQFP-48 by a pad, then it is one pad off.
In this screen recording I try to grab it by pin 20, but then the cursor jumps to pad 21 and grabs it there.
vokoscreen-2022-01-16_14-22-09.mkv (199.8 KB)
Can anyone else confirm this please.
I’m thinking of filing a bug report for this on gitlab.
Application: KiCad
Version: 6.0.1-79c1e3a40b~116~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.13.0-25-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, xfce, x11
Build Info:
Date: Jan 15 2022 20:26:22
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.71.0
OCC: 7.5.2
Curl: 7.81.0
ngspice: 31
Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON