Hi All,
What will make measuring so much faster would be an option to activate snaps to features like centre’s, ends, mids etc , even on current layer…
How can this get through to developers?
Thanks
Michael
Hold down Alt key and it snaps.
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Ow… Ok thanks. I will try that out soon.
[OT] Quite strangely, in pcbnew, Alt doesn’t seem to snap, unless it’s apparently Pin 1 of a footprint. [/OT]
I’m still getting used to Kicad, only 1 project so far. Altium allows adjustment of the curser to snap point range to be adjusted also, I have had the need to make the snap range in Kicad smaller but could not adjust it!
Version info?---------------
“Current stable”
Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 32 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.61.1
Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1011
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Could you report this as a bug? Because it works as expected (can snap to any pad) on Linux but not on Windows 10 for me.
[ Sorry for hijacking this thread ]
Before reporting, I finally found it only snaps to the center (or anchor ?) of the footprint but not the other pads. Do you see the same issue on Win10 ? I want to be the most descriptive as possible for the devs.
Sorry, mwddust, but snapping doesn’t work at all in the gerber viewer. And it would be a bit difficult to do, because the gerber graphics is different than the pcb file format. Without considerable effort it wouldn’t work 1:1 as with the kicad pcb file. With a simple implementation even an oval pad would have three “centers” because it seems to consist of a circle and a line.
Yes. Give the link here, I’ll add information there.
Edit: the version info is wrong about the windows version, that’s a known wxWidgets bug I think.
Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.61.1
Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON
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