If you make the Electrical Grid 'Range' smaller (in Board Options) you may
be able to snap to the center of the pad and not the underlying polygon
tracks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirk Haderlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 19 July 2001 1:43 AM
> To: 'Protel EDA Forum'
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] Complex Selection
>
>
> After Looking closer at the issue, I realized I have polygon
> fills in the
> selection that cross the center of all the component pads.
> When clicking on
> the center of a pad I was not selecting the pad but the
> polygon fill, thus
> my anchor point was the polygon fill. If I use a via placed
> in the polygon
> fill I was able to move on grid. I appear that a polygon
> fill has selection
> priority over a component pad.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirk Haderlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 5:40 PM
> To: Protel EDA Forum (E-mail)
> Subject: [PEDA] Complex Selection
>
>
> I am trying to move a set of components as a complex
> selection. How can I
> chose a pad of one of the component for my anchor point
> during the move? I
> would like to do this so all component pin 1's stay on grid.
> I get a box
> around the selection and my anchor point for the move is the
> bottom left
> corner of the box, thus my components end up being moved off
> grid. Any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> Kirk Haderlie
> Design Engineer
> Vivid Image Technology
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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