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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

I second this

Regards
Fabrizio


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Good point Kevin.
>
> Can we have "hold down CTRL" to disable snap to grip feature? That would
> cover the caliper and other myriad of uses when snap to grid is unwanted.
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-03-28 03:25 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
>>
>>> this ruler (caliper icon) does look really good.
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> It is often a good idea to have a way to measure footprint size.
>>>
>>
>> The caliper tool is a useful addition to Kicad. The only one thing I've
>> noticed about it is it only lets you measure distances from one grid point
>> to another. If you need to measure starting from the edge of a pad (for
>> example) to some other point you can't unless you change the grid spacing.
>>
>> If there is a way to tell the caliper to not snap to grid points when you
>> are using it to make a measurement I haven't figured out how to do that.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Kevin.
>>
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