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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did not know that.

I think the "no snap to grid" option reachable with Shift-Ctrl is not
visible in any menu nor in the hotkey list.... People will have hard time
to find it I suppose unless they read the manual.




On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:47 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 30/03/2017 à 15:34, John Beard a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> FYI, temporary turn grid snap off exists in Eeschema (when moving
> objects): Maj+Ctrl
>
>
> >
> > 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!
> >>>>
> >>>> Kevin.
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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