Kicad 5.1.12
I’ve spent about 1 hour to draw a very simple footprint.
I encoutered the following problems:
- I can copy and paste items to a different layer (it’s unbelievable! it would be enough to past to the current layer!)
- in order to change the layer manually (i.e. often the silkscreen layer is the same for fabrication, at least for, say, the outer border of the footprint) I had to copy and paste the items on the same layer, but in a different position
- after select each item one by one and changed their layer (another thing that is impossible in Kicad is to change the common properties for multiple items) I had to move back to the correct position. Hence I selected the items and tried to move, but they didn’t match the already present items (because during the copy and paste it loosed the grid origin)
- while moving them manually, the snap-to-item feature is not active (why?)
- I tried to use the “position relative to” feature, but for some reason when I selected the reference item it moved the new items to the other end of the line, without the possibility to specify which end to use (anyway I didn’t mirror anything, so I don’t understand why it behaves in this way)
- when drawing arcs it’s a pain without a decent snap feature (i.e. vertical/horizontal constraint from a given point like an item end)
Are the above points all true or am I missing some basic feature that are available in kicad?
