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[Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was about to explode, but then noticed that if I select the whole
footprint then the MOVE (press M) snaps to the closest point, either center
of footprint or center of pad.

However, if I selected a pad without selecting the footprint and then
pressed M, then it would snap to the center of the footprint, this is
unexpected behaviour. When a pad is selected, I'd expect the move to snap
to the center of that specific pad, not to the whole footprint.
Can someone fix it?

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Carlo Maragno <ste.maragno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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