Zoom to fit cross-probed items

[stefan_b]

I am wondering if there is a setting I missed to zoom to cross-probed items:

If “Zoom to fit cross-probed items” is checked when selecting a component on schematic the pcb view is zoomed “out”, that’s not really useful, especially if you have a small component (0402 or smaller) and the pcb is big.

https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/uploads/bfa3bdeb5439f3007534994c1e22e635/cross_probing_zoom.avi

What I am looking for is an option to zoom “in” when cross-probing

[NikB2]

I have the same issue after switching to V8.

Zoom to fit and centre view on cross probed items not working in V8.

Is this a bug, or is there a workaround?

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x64 on x64

Version: 8.0.0, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.4
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 8.3.0
FontConfig 2.14.2
libcurl/8.5.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Feb 23 2024 02:24:15
wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.83.0
OCC: 7.7.1
Curl: 8.5.0-DEV
ngspice: 42
Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings:

[stefan_b]

there seems to be already a bug report for this Bugs: Strange behavior or fail in "Zoom to fit cross-probed items" (#15245) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

you might want to upvote it as well

[NikB2]

Actually it is working some of the time. Sometimes it zooms to fit but the zoom level is a bit inconsistent. Sometimes it centres but not always.

[xdrone]

I noticed that the datasheet URL is carried as a field into the PCB footprint in v8. There seems to be a bounding area that encompasses all the hidden fields area around that footprint. If you remove the datahsheet url from the footprint fields then that would fix it. I don’t normally want the datasheet URL within the PCB fields area, some might, but if you remove it from the footprint, it would return back to how it was back in v7.