RE: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Moving problems

["Les Grant" <lesgrant@grantronics.com.au>]

Hi Heiko,

On 18 Sep 00, at 15:54, Heiko Vachek wrote:

> > Turn off "Snap to center" before doing the move.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Les Grant.
> 
> 
> That won't change anything to Phan's problem. The cursor will snap to
> primitives anyway. The "snap to center" option just moves the cursor
> to the refence point of components. But the "snapping" to primitives
> can only be toggled with "electrical grid". (Read my recent posting)

There is a bug in the paste operation. It sometimes uses a 
bounding box that surrounds the entire selection rather than your 
specified reference point. I can't remember the exact conditions but 
it caught me last night. I just un-did the paste, turned off "Snap to 
center" and re-did the paste which worked. Try it... you may be 
surprised! Make sure your selection has some text at the edge - 
that seems to "help" create the problem...

Now, I haven't experienced this bug with gerbers so I could be 
wrong... But the problem is real when pasting normal footprints.

Regards,
Les.


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