Why are my footprints too small?

It is like the title says. The foot print is smaller than it is drawn. The magenta circle is 100 mils (2.54mm) in the footprint editor. On the layout it doesn’t fit the 4 holes that are 100 mils apart. The board image was checked against the real one for size, the holes are 100 mils apart.
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for those wondering:
I am trying to document an old “digital controller” so I can fix it. The one board most protected has the most corrosion. A tuning diode “exploded” (swelled and broke the glass) and there were several resistors with no skin or just dust.

I hereby certify that I am not simply asking someone else to design a footprint for me.

You must have some type of scaling issue with your PCB image.

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If the magenta circle is 2.54 mm diameter that means by applying Pythagoras, the distance between adjacent pins is 1/sqrt(2) of 2.54 mm. So you need to pick another footprint.

Yeah, just realized I should have used a square to layout the pin spacing. Can’t wait untill the card edge connector.

In my defense, geometry class was more than ummm, borrow for the 10s, ummmm. That can’t be right…

Just set your grid to the pin pitch (or an integer sub division) and then place them with the mouse, or draw an array.

New to doing a “custom” project. Making symbols and footprints sounds easy enough. I’ve done simpler projects in ver 6 and 7 but haven’t been back to layouts since. Need to read more of the docs and hit the Youtubes.