Thank you Pedro Kerim
--- In [email protected], Pedro Martin <pki...@...> wrote: > > Hi, > > In the new version do: > > 1. Click on the starting point with right button. > 2. Release the right button and begin to draw. > Regards, > > Pedro. > > > My job is just to design new circuits and provide them as schematics. Then > the product factories I cooperate with, do the rest mainly the drawing of the > PCB layouts. > > > > So for many years I use, with thanks, Kicad (version 2007-01-15) to draw > schematics only. > > Lately I liked to use PCBNEW to draw some layouts myself. First I > > downloaded > the newest version (KiCad-2009-02-16-final-WinXP_autoinstall) and installed > it on my PC that runs Windows XP. > > Perhaps by a mere coincidence, I liked first to draw a line (polygon) on > > the > drawing layer. But the cursor while it looks like a pen, worked as a block > selector instead. Obviously I had doubt that I am missing something so I > returned back to the previous version on which, for the drawings, everything > went fine. > > > > May I add that once (perhaps twice) and while trying to draw lines > (polygons) on the new version (PCBNEW), the cursor suddenly started to do its > job but I couldn't know what I did just before it. > > > > Since the old version is good for me, I wrote this message here just as a > feedback (I usually read all messages here, and I don't remember reading > about this... but I am sorry if my memory is short... I am 60 after all) > > > > > > >
