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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Oh, now I see what you mean. There is a slight difference between the
steps we perform to drag a component by its pad. You select a pad and
start to drag it, and I select a whole footprint and drag starting near
a pad.

Regards,
Orson

On 05/05/2017 05:36 PM, Carlo Maragno wrote:
> Too bad! Here you can find a google drive folder with the two small video.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Carlo
> 
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-AbX0GoNzEPRjFSY19qQ0JjeFE
> 
> On May 3, 2017 10:15 PM, "Carlo Maragno" <ste.maragno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> While I was using an old developer version of Kicad (the build date was
>> 28-2-2017), in pcbnew the move tool would grab the component from the point
>> closer to the cursor when M was pressed. In other word, if the cursor was
>> closer to a pad the center of the pad would become the grabbing point.
>>
>> On the last developer release from the Ubuntu PPA, this behavior
>> disappeared. I'm trying to figure out at which point it was deleted but as
>> I was quite far away from master head this could be a very long process.
>> Now I am at commit #bbaa29, made by Chris Pavlina.
>>
>> Can someone of the developers point to me at which point this feature was
>> removed?
>>
>> My ultimate goal would be to make a push request in order to get this
>> feature added again. So if someone could help that would be great!
>>
>> Thanks again to all,
>> Carlo
>>
> 
> 
> 
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