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[Carlo Maragno <ste.maragno@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, could you point out how to achieve the same result on the last version
of kicad?

I recompiled from master head but I wasn't able do drag a component from a
pad.


Thanks again,
Carlo

2017-05-06 14:25 GMT+02:00 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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