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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm this, it also affects the movement of graphic items like
lines and arcs to very disturbing results. It will always use the
centerpoint of an arc or first point of a line, snapping the part to the
cursor every time. I ran a git bisect and it looks like the first commit
that introduced that behavior was
57310001350ead3a6b7870f19982f77b88ac5b8a, with the introduction of storage
of offsets in the SELECTION class.

I couldn't find a satisfactory fix because i'm not familiar with the design
of the edit tool, the expected behavior is that when you press M with the
cursor over an endpoint of a line or arc, kicad will use that endpoint as
the reference anchor to move the object around.

Thanks,
Jose

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 3:05 PM, <d.b2@xxxxxx> wrote:

> The changes introduced in #931a1ccaff, that bring new features to
> copy/paste in pcbnew, change the behaviour of the cursor snapping when
> moving footprints:
> Before you could move components by either their origin or any pad. This
> is a really handy feature that allows the easy alignment of differently
> pitched components without the need to constantly change the grid (And I
> don't seem to be the only one who enjoyed this feature:
> https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/214072).
>
>
> Changing line 455 of pcbnew/tools/edit_tool.cpp from
>         > if ( selection.HasReferencePoint() )
> to
>         > if ( false && selection.HasReferencePoint() )
>
> brings back the old behaviour (but breaks of course other things as that's
> just a quick hack). So I prosume it would be quite easy to re-enable this
> behaviour, maybe by adding an additional check prior to the query of
> selection.HasReferencePoint() to see if the cursor is currently above a
> movable pad.
>
>
>
> Looking forward to discuss this issue with you guys :)
>
> Best regards
> Daniel
>
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