If i want to enter default value for pin length in mm after accepting all changes everything changes to some kind of mess.
To be more precise, when i enter 1mm , after accepting it always changes to 0.9906.
How to fix it ???
Schematics usually use mils (throusands of an inch) as unit, for example the standard grid is 50 mils.
0.9906 mm is equal to 39 mils, which is the closest value representable as a full mil.
Itâs not a good idea to switch to millimeter based grid for schematics, as all the standard symbols would be off-grid.
Thank you ! But i want to make my own library of symbols which is based on metric system.
Is there any way to change standard grid ?
Sorry for not answering your question, but this has been discussed many, many times over. The question from us to you is âwhyâ. Why do you want to use the metric system? The unit used in the symbols and the schematics doesnât correspond to anything concrete in the real world. Even in printed paper you wonât need anything exact, and if you feel you do, you are using something for wrong purpose. Therefore the default units havenât been changed in KiCad, and you could as well imagine that all the length values there are abstract unitless values, or some random units like bananabox or Âľnmi or kicad_sch_unit. Changing the default is useless, fruitless and purposeless for anything else than your aesthetic feeling or your inner engineer obsession.
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Actually, you are right. If itâs that hard to make Kicad metric i will use it in imperial. But it hurt for my european brains, and itâs little bit easier to work with something similar.
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It is easy to make KiCad metric for the PCB editor, where units matter in the real world. It is hard in the schematic editor, where units donât matter but it is critical that all pins and wires align. It is best to pretend that there are no units in the schematic editor as eelik said, and do not try to change the units.
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In any case, I just checked the code, and while the internal unit seems to be metric (nanometer based), some stuff like the settings dialog you showed us is hardcoded to convert the preferences to mils. So working in metric at the moment isnât really feasible at the moment (and would be a huge amount of useless work as already mentioned).
I know itâs annoying to work with imperial units if youâre European, but in the case of the schematics editor, you sort of have to live with it.
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Life kind of s***s âŚ
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When in 2017 I moved from Protel to KiCad I changed my PCBs from everything in mils to everything in mm. But I never even thought to use mm at schematic.
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Câmon now, say what you realy feel 
Symbols and Schematics are neither Metric nor Imperial. Everything is ratio based on the grid. The grid just happens to have the âmilsâ suffix attached to the number.
If you wish to view a symbol or schematic on your screen in Metric or Imperial the zoom needs to be altered. Likewise printing, alter the %.
To avoid serious brain damage, it is best to read âmilsâ as an abbreviation of " mil limeter s" rather than thousandths of an inch 
There is no way a few lines and squiggles on a piece of paper actually do anything. They are just an abstract guide to help create the real-world, does everything, and MUST have units, PCB.
I donât like things imperial, except for stout.
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I canât understand all the fuss. With electronics it is mostly decimal Imperial and Metric
The distance between pins 1 & 8 of a DIP 16 package is .1 X 7 in imperial. In metric it is 2.54 X7.
Which is easier to calculate?
It could be much worse. Our forbearers could have started semi conductor packages in 1/64th inches or used British Association Metric which starts as 6mm = 1 and every incremental size smaller is 9/10 the previous size correct to two decimal places. Everyone would then have something to really scream about. 
I am wondering would it make any harm if there change of grid scale value would not be allowed in future version of schematic editor? At least for me it has happened with Kicad 5, 6 and 7 versions that I have somehow (I think by accident) ended up of having a following types of problems.
- I have symbols A and B in schematic editor
- I have drawn connection between pins on symbol A and B
- Somehow I manage to get the grid size value changed for example from 0.025 inch to 0.0100 inch. (Not sure whether I press by accident some shortcut that changes it or do I somehow change between impereal and metric units)
- If I after that click Symbol A, it will move a slightly to align with the currently selected grid coordinates
- Now the connections from Symbol B getâs all disconnected from symbols from A.
Sometimes itâs even impossible to get them connected, until I make sure that all symbols are aligned to this new grid coordinates. â In reality I need to draw lot of connections again as visually they look to be connected but Electric rule checker reveals that they are disconnected.
- Check to make sure your grid is 50 mil.
- Create a selection including your whole schematic.
- Right mouse click
- Choose âAlign elements to Gridâ
This will re-align everything back on grid.
A really common problem is miss-keying the âMâ move key and hitting the âNâ key instead.
The N hotkey is set to âSwitch to previous gridâ which causes problems if you do not notice.
The current grid you are working on always shows at the centre right at the very bottom of your screen. It pays to look at that occasionally.
I solved the N key problem by changing the action of the N hotkey.
There are some major grid changes in Kicad 8 to help solve this problem
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I think this was the infamous N hotkey. I think in v8, itâs been made harder to change the grid accidentally, I forget the details but you can search for it.
But this problem has not been changed in Kicad 8.
Didnât you write this Change the default for Hotkey N in 7.99 which says that in 7.99 it displays the choices for a short while?
Then there was this topic: Shortcut "n" to change the Schematic Grid is horrible! - #60 by JeffYoung which resulted in: Off-grid schematics are too easy to create (#14756) ¡ Issues ¡ KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad ¡ GitLab
Why do I have to do your searching for you?
I donât understand the remark. Who is searching and for what?
All I commented on was the default for the hotkey N had not been changed.
The hotkey has not changed for v8, but v8 uses different grids for editing connecting things like symbols and wires and non-connecting things like random texts.
Pressing n while placing a wire/symbol only toggles between the available options for the connection grid, which I think by default are 50 and 25 mils, so thereâs not much danger there.