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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ctrl is already used for angle snap.

I think there should be a generic way to turn grid snap on and off in
all GAL modes. Then it stays on or off until you toggle it again.

This is a little bit tricky to do as a global action due to how the
GAL tool manager keeps VIEW_CONTROL state for each tool. This is why
grid snapping in selection mode (for which there are several issues on
LP) is harder than it looks.

Having a loads of "else if (evt->IsAction( ToggleGridAction)) "
statements in every GAL event loop would be a pain.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Fabrizio Tappero
<fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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!
>>>
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