When I moved text items on the FAB layer the selected texts where jumping around as if avoiding certain places. However there is no routing involved and these texts are not part of the pcb like the silkscreen.
I found that this behaviour is caused by the setting “only allow 45° actions”. There is also a toggle button for this on the left.
In my opinion this function is definetely necessary for routing and maybe for component placement but for moving texts it feels “painful”.
Is this intentional ? No exeptions for moving things around ?
Are you aware of the grid overrides? With these you can set different grid for text.
What do you mean with:
What are those “certain places”? Is that a grid like thing, or something like “the lower left corner of the PCB”?
That Icon is put in the left toolbar so you can quickly toggle it on or off. So turn it off for texts if you don’t like it. I think I never used this function myself. When I want to align things I usually do it visually on a coarse grid, and the movement of the object is usually also not a multiple of 45 degrees, as that would imply it already was aligned. Also, KiCad normally always lays tracks in a multiple of 45 degrees, even when this function is off.
I think yes. (This behaviour was already present in v6/v7/v8…)
usecase: move somethink (inclusive text items) exactly vertical/horizontal from the current position.
For your usecase (move freely) there is the toggle switch (left toolbar) and the hotkey (Shift+Space) to switch off the verical/horizontal restriction.
