Re: gEDA-user: Stupid newbie question

[Karel Kulhavý <clock@twibright.com>]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:33:54AM -0700, Steve Meier wrote:
> 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.

Is it possible to add somehow efficiently a feature like in PCB?
"Crosshair snaps to pins and pads"? Hope this is not too much creeping
featurism ;-)

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> Steve M.
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> Chad Robinson wrote:
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> > 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
> >
> >
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