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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I replied to Jeff's inquiry in the bug report at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1794548 which covers most of this.
 I'm fine if we discuss it on the dev mailing list.

Wayne

On 9/26/2018 11:48 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Hi All-
> 
> This has gone around a few times already but I don't know that there was
> consensus last time.  So let's figure it out here.
> 
> There are three levels of lock for footprints:
> 1) Free
> 2) Lock pads
> 3) Lock footprint
> 
> In 1) you can edit everything.  In 2) you can only edit the footprint in
> 3) you cannot edit anything.
> 
> In 5.0, the behavior was that 2) prevented the pad from moving but you
> could still change its properties and, if you went into the pad
> properties menu, you could in fact move the pad in the footprint. 
> 
> In 5.1 at the moment, once a thing is locked, you can't edit it at all
> until you unlock it.
> 
> I think we went in the wrong way with this.  I don't think we should be
> changing this behavior until we have a file format update to separate
> "lock" from "don't move".  I often do not want the footprint pads to
> move but still want to be able to change the clearance or fill
> connection type of the pad.  
> 
> I'm open to hearing why we need this change in 5.  I just haven't heard
> the reason yet.
> 
> -Seth
> 
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