Symbol pin or wire end off connection grid

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I just installed the latest and greatest 8.0 on a Windows 11-64 machine.
When I open any (well, the ones I have tried) schematics created by KiCad 7.0, the ERC gives hundreds of warnings in the title:

[endpoint_off_grid]: Symbol pin or wire end off connection grid
    ; warning
    @(152.4000 mm, 34.9250 mm): Symbol J4 Pin 2 [Pin_2, Passive, Line]
[endpoint_off_grid]: Symbol pin or wire end off connection grid
    ; warning

Needless to say, the projects pass all ERC in KiCad 7.0.
After a bit of research (I haven’t found anything specific to 8.0, though) it seems that it has to do with my grid settings. I can’t remember ever changing them from default, they look like this:

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I also noticed that if I manually move each part/wire a bit, they seem to snap in place and each time I do this, the number of warnings get less. However, if I select all parts and move them in one go, nothing changes. (I kind of understand it, as the parts’ relative position does not change then.) Moving everything, though, one by one is not really feasible when I have many pars/wires as it is error prone.

Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks for any pointer!

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One possible reason:
Kicad v8 changed this specific ERC-check:

  • v7: this ERC-check used the currently set grid value
  • v8: this ERC-check uses a dedicated value for this check. You have to set this value in “Schematic editor–>File–>Schematic Setup–>General–>Formatting–>Connections–>connection grid”.

The value should reflect the grid you have used to draw the schematic.

If your schematic is really offgrid and you want to move items onto the grid:

  • set the desired grid value
  • select all–>RMB-click–>context menu–>Align elements to grid
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@mf_ibfeew Thanks for the quick reply!

These are my v8 settings:

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I don’t think I have ever changed the defaults in either versions.

The trick with “Align elements to grid” worked, thank you. I am now beating my self up for not seeing this option… (Doh…)

Thanks for putting me straight!!!

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This solves my issue moving a schematic from 7 to 8 too. Thanks!