Placing cursor in the middle of the pad

[Chapeau_et_Moustache]

Hi,

Protel used to help placing cursor in the middle of the pad to measure distance between centers of the pads.
Can this be done i KiCad?

Thanks
Tom

[Rene_Poschl]

KiCad version 5 is rather limited with how one can measure footprint features within it. Which is why i basically used freecad plus librecad for reviews of contributions to the official lib. My process is described here Tutorial: How to check footprint correctness?

[Chapeau_et_Moustache]

Thank you Rene, I just started learnig KiCad and I’m missing the old good Protel already

Best regards
Tom

[Seth_h]

Hold down the alt key to ignore the grid and only snap to hotspots (like pads)

[RaptorUK]

@Seth_h

Hold down the alt key to ignore the grid and only snap to hotspots (like pads)

Thank you you just made my KiCAD life so much easier.

[Chapeau_et_Moustache]

That’s AWSOME Seth! Thank you very much! This makes me say Protel bye bye with no remorse.

best regards
Tom

[Rene_Poschl]

Sadly this is not an option inside the footprint editor. And it is a bit counter intuitive that i need to insert the footprint into pcbnew to check its measurements.

[Seth_h]

Preferences were a little bit different in v5.1 between footprint editor and pcbnew.

[Rene_Poschl]

Damn i seem to be blind today