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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

That is not a but, it is the autoplace fields feature.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 01:58, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Nov 25, 2019, at 5:31 PM, Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Andy, thank you for the feedback. None of these sound like release
> stoppers though. Please file a bug report for the first one, and the second
> one has been reported already (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1850632).
>
>
> Will do.
>
> One more.
>
> I’ve created a symbol in the Symbol Editor. In the editor, the Reference
> Designator is placed just above the top of the symbol and the Value
> (component name) is placed just below the bottom of the symbol. See
> screenshot:
>
>
>
> But when the part is placed on the schematic, the reference designator is
> moved up to make room for the value field:
> I can’t figure out why it’s doing this.
>
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