Oh, now I see what you mean. There is a slight difference between the steps we perform to drag a component by its pad. You select a pad and start to drag it, and I select a whole footprint and drag starting near a pad.
Regards, Orson On 05/05/2017 05:36 PM, Carlo Maragno wrote: > Too bad! Here you can find a google drive folder with the two small video. > > Enjoy, > Carlo > > https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-AbX0GoNzEPRjFSY19qQ0JjeFE > > On May 3, 2017 10:15 PM, "Carlo Maragno" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> While I was using an old developer version of Kicad (the build date was >> 28-2-2017), in pcbnew the move tool would grab the component from the point >> closer to the cursor when M was pressed. In other word, if the cursor was >> closer to a pad the center of the pad would become the grabbing point. >> >> On the last developer release from the Ubuntu PPA, this behavior >> disappeared. I'm trying to figure out at which point it was deleted but as >> I was quite far away from master head this could be a very long process. >> Now I am at commit #bbaa29, made by Chris Pavlina. >> >> Can someone of the developers point to me at which point this feature was >> removed? >> >> My ultimate goal would be to make a push request in order to get this >> feature added again. So if someone could help that would be great! >> >> Thanks again to all, >> Carlo >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

