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Message #05819
Re: [PATCH] Footprint text umbilicals
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To:
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From:
Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:24:26 -0600
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Marco,
Looks pretty good to me.
Dick
> Hi,
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> Here's a proposal for a feature stolen from Eagle (at least). When
> moving footprint reference texts around in crowded areas of a board,
> it is sometimes difficult to keep track of, e.g., which reference
> belongs to which resistor. The situation would be clearer if there was
> a line drawn from the reference and other text fields to the parent
> footprint origin. That's what the attached patch adds to pcbnew. In
> addition it centers the cursor on the field that is being moved when
> the move starts.
>
> marco
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