Le 30/03/2017 à 15:34, John Beard a écrit : > Ctrl is already used for angle snap. > > I think there should be a generic way to turn grid snap on and off in > all GAL modes. Then it stays on or off until you toggle it again.
FYI, temporary turn grid snap off exists in Eeschema (when moving objects): Maj+Ctrl > > This is a little bit tricky to do as a global action due to how the > GAL tool manager keeps VIEW_CONTROL state for each tool. This is why > grid snapping in selection mode (for which there are several issues on > LP) is harder than it looks. > > Having a loads of "else if (evt->IsAction( ToggleGridAction)) " > statements in every GAL event loop would be a pain. > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Fabrizio Tappero > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I second this >> >> Regards >> Fabrizio >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Good point Kevin. >>> >>> Can we have "hold down CTRL" to disable snap to grip feature? That would >>> cover the caliper and other myriad of uses when snap to grid is unwanted. >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Kevin Cozens <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2017-03-28 03:25 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote: >>>>> >>>>> this ruler (caliper icon) does look really good. >>>> >>>> [snip] >>>>> >>>>> It is often a good idea to have a way to measure footprint size. >>>> >>>> >>>> The caliper tool is a useful addition to Kicad. The only one thing I've >>>> noticed about it is it only lets you measure distances from one grid point >>>> to another. If you need to measure starting from the edge of a pad (for >>>> example) to some other point you can't unless you change the grid spacing. >>>> >>>> If there is a way to tell the caliper to not snap to grid points when you >>>> are using it to make a measurement I haven't figured out how to do that. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Cheers! >>>> >>>> Kevin. -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
