Measure distance between pads

before I used to measure distance between center of pads , vias , traces and mechanical holes by starting rout trace, goes to center of a pad , the sticky mouse points on the center then press space to reset the relative X,Y the goes to other pad and precisely measure the distance .
today when I press the space key it does not reset the relative X,Y
this is very important for precise results . also it is very useful to have air gap measurement between pads and traces
can someone help ?

N.B it was working long time before

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Application: pcbnew
Version: (2018-01-19 revision 673f03e59)-makepkg, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.3
libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
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wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.60.0
Curl: 7.54.1
Compiler: GCC 7.1.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
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USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

I noticed the same thing (that the spacebar doesn’t set the zero point) recently. It happened only under some circumstances, but I didn’t find out which. It’s a bug and if it’s not reported already, maybe you could do it? The best we can do is to find out a way to reproduce it and tell it in a bug report.

can you send a link where to report the bug

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