They are anchors. When you create a module the anchor is in the centre of the screen, you normally have to zoom in a bit to see it clearly.
The text boxes also have a anchor point, again normally in the centre. Treat the anchor points as "handles" that you grab to move the text boxes and such like. I sometimes make pin one of an IC be the module anchor point, as that defines where it will be placed when you click on the layout, but in practise it does not make much difference. The colour menu allows you to hide them, but generally they are so small that they don't usually cause any confusion. Andy On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:11:46 -0000 "bbt5001" <[email protected]> wrote: > When I placed my first module into my PCBnew layout, I noticed several little > blue dots. I realized that somehow these were part of the module. I tried > creating another new module, and found that one of the grid pixels, off set > from the origin, was blue. Then I noticed that both of the default text > strings had blue dots. Obviously, these are some sort of anchor but the > documentation doesn't talk about them. How should they be used, or should > they be ignored (if the latter, then is there some way to not show them)? > Should I make sure that some element of my module includes this dot? > > Thanks. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > >
