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Re: [PATCH] Footprint text umbilicals

 

Marco,

Looks pretty good to me.

Dick


> Hi,
>
> 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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