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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/10/2012 12:35 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote:
>
>   I have an issue, and yet couldn't understand the real difference.
>
>  a)  If I set a pad (in module, in board) "position",and save it to disk (brd or .mod),
> then the pad position won't get saved.
>
>  b)  If I set a pad (in module, in board) "pos0", and save it to disk, the pad will get
> saved.
>
> Ok :-)
>
> then if I do the same, but instead if saving, I try to visualize it in the board, I get
> the opposite:
>
>   a) I get all pads at (0,0) for the "pos0" case, and
>
>   b) well positioned for "position" case.
>
>
> What's the exact idea of those 2 positions?


See lines starting at 215, of pcbnew/move-drag-pads.cpp



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