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Re: gEDA-user: Stupid newbie question

As a rule I leave snap on. Its only if I am edditting a symbol where I want some non-pin object in a preceise location that I turn snap off... And then I am ever very carefull.

Steve M.


Chad Robinson wrote:

Bill Wilson wrote:


On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:04:23 -0500
Bill Wilson <billw@WT.NET> wrote:



Of that I'm not sure...  the last thing I can think of is maybe you
have the snap to grid off.  Look for "Snap Off" in the lower right



Oh, and if snap was off, the symbols themselves might now not be
on grid and you might have to start over placing them because once
they are off grid they may not just move back on grid when you move them
after turning snap on (not sure about that).

This was the ticket. The symbols LOOKED like they were on the grid but must have been just slightly off. Even with snap off (to connect off-snap-grid) or back on (always off by a pixel or two) I wasn't able to establish connections.

Is there any plan to change this sensitivity? It might be nice to have a snap-to-connection-endpoint function. That way it would matter where on the grid objects were, as long as you were within a few pixels-percent-of-zoom to the pin it would do the job. It ought not to be that hard to add, is this just a lack of interest thing? This is my hobby, not my day job, so I don't know how relevant it is to the pros out there.

Regards,
Chad