I use kicad daily for reverse engineeering and occasionally PCBNEW for
test fixtures. I have been using the 2007-11-29-RC2 release for
Windows, I have not layed out a PCB until today.
I started a PCB layout, a small circuit (5"X3") with six - 16 pin SO14E
footprints and two TQFP-44's, 1206 resistors and capacitors, and some
LEDs. I read the netlist into pcbnew and as usual the parts were all
stacked up on top of each other, no problem.
I place the parts manually, I do the entire process manually, PCBNEW is
an excellent tool for manually routing a PCB. The problem I started
seeing was that I would move a part, and place it. I would go to move
the next part, and I would grab the same part off of the stack that I
just placed. About half the time a part I placed would stay where I
placed it. I finally gave up and went back to the July release. I
completed the board in a couple of hours.
