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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reproduced on Linux, and reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1751960

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:27 PM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This uses last night’s nightly (macOS).
>
> I imported a DXF file into the Cmts.User layer (nothing else is on it) and
> I need to move it into a specific location. Since there is no “group all of
> this stuff into one thing” feature (which I admittedly hadn’t thought about
> until just now), my imported thing is a bunch of lines and arcs.
>
> To move it, I turned off all of the layers except Cmts.User and used the
> mouse to draw a selection box around the imported lines. But! The selection
> includes all sorts of other stuff which was invisible. Checking the “Items”
> visibility I see that most things are selected — Footprints, References,
> Pads, Tracks, Vias, Holes. But since their layers are turned off, they’re
> not visible. (which is the expected result.)
>
> Shouldn’t the block-select logic select only stuff which is actually
> visible? That is, if the layer is not visible and I don’t see a thing, I
> should not be able to select that thing, period.
>
> (Aside: is there any way to combine things like a mechanical outline DXF
> imported into an auxiliary layer? I designed a small board that goes behind
> a front panel and I went to check whether it would actually fit, and
> realized that while I can import the panel outline, moving it as one unit,
> with an anchor point like any regular footprint, doesn’t work.)
>
> Thanks, and I have to say that Kicad is really working out here. The two
> boards I want to fab this week are my 9th and 10th Kicad designs.
>
>
> Application: kicad
> Version: (5.0.0-rc2-dev-16-g319b7cf), release build
> Libraries:
>     wxWidgets 3.0.4
>     libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 17.4.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
> Build Info:
>     wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
>     Boost: 1.61.0
>     Curl: 7.43.0
>     Compiler: Clang 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1002
>
> Build settings:
>     USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
>     USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>     KICAD_SPICE=ON
>
>
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