On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 22:35 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 22:02 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > pcb 20080202 > > > > It was my assumption that crosshair should snap to center of a pad when > > Settings/Crosshair snaps to pins and pads is selected. But it does not > > really snaps to center -- it snaps to center of short edge, and to two > > positions for long edge. > > > > I tried to position a rectangular pad centered on a grid point, but it > > does not work because pad is not grabbed at its center. > > > > Is there a reason for not snapping to pad center? > > (I tried to make a screen shot, but crosshair was not visible.) > > It snaps to the two points defining the end of the pad. I agree that > isn't ideal. I've got a patch in my stack which reworks the snapping > code to let you get at objects PCB otherwise makes really hard to snap > onto, but its not 100% right yet. > > If people like the new behaviour (when its fixed), I'll see if we can > get that committed into PCB.
The patch I'm currently runnning with is here: http://repo.or.cz/w/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git?a=commitdiff;h=8ff6cdf371b75c3ef75895fb4e647a55caf78e7a Or in a format you can apply to try it out: http://repo.or.cz/w/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ff6cdf371b75c3ef75895fb4e647a55caf78e7a The idea is that it will snap to the nearest feature - not the previous behaviour which had a list of different object types it would snap to within a certain radius. (It would always pick the first object type it looked at within reach - not the nearest to the cursor). Holding the shift key always allows you to select a grid point - it otherwise the cursor would be grabbed by some nearby object - good(*) for selecting a grid point to end a track underneath a pad - if you really don't want it to snap to the center of that pad. * (Not so useful when I discovered it will happilytrigger the "replace object under cursor with the one in the buffer" logic if you paste a buffer, even if that buffer contains a track!). > Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
