Re: gEDA-user: pcb, crosshair snaps not to center of pads

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 22:02 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> pcb 20080202
> 
> It was my assumption that crosshair should snap to center of a pad when
> Settings/Crosshair snaps to pins and pads is selected. But it does not
> really snaps to center -- it snaps to center of short edge, and to two
> positions for long edge.
> 
> I tried to position a rectangular pad centered on a grid point, but it
> does not work because pad is not grabbed at its center.
> 
> Is there a reason for not snapping to pad center?
> (I tried to make a screen shot, but crosshair was not visible.)

It snaps to the two points defining the end of the pad. I agree that
isn't ideal. I've got a patch in my stack which reworks the snapping
code to let you get at objects PCB otherwise makes really hard to snap
onto, but its not 100% right yet.

If people like the new behaviour (when its fixed), I'll see if we can
get that committed into PCB.

Best wishes,
-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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