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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 4:07 PM Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I found it in Common and reassigned it to ctl-F12 so I won't use it by
> accident. I can't see how to clear or disable a hotkey.
>

If you right-click on the action in the hotkey list there should be an
option to clear the assigned hotkey so that none are assigned to it.

-Ian


> I think this should be a separate function under eeSchema: changing grids,
> especially to a wonky user grid just causes problems.
>
>
> On 2020-10-28 11:54 a.m., Brian Piccioni wrote:
>
> Perhaps it is, however, entering "Grid" in the hotkey search box does not
> yield Next Grid so there is no way for a user to know that 'N' means next
> grid, let alone to disable it.
>
> I would want to disable that function as switching grids in eeSchema is
> just a way of creating problems.
>
>
> On 2020-10-28 11:48 a.m., Laurence DV wrote:
>
> Hello (and all),
>
> I tend to do that by missing the "M" key on my keyboard and hitting "N"
> (select next grid) (fyi Shift-N for previous grid).
>
> User-grid being the last in the list it happen a lot when routing (I tend
> to route on finest grid).
>
> Maybe it is just that?
>
> On 2020-10-28 11:41 a.m., Brian Piccioni wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I have been having a weird problem for some time now. Every once in a
> while, eeSchema would place things off grid. I am unable to replicate this,
> it just happens.
>
> I noticed just now that eeSchema had switched to "User Grid" of 0.013 in
> (0.32 mm), which I suspect is the root of the "off grid" issues. I thought
> perhaps there was a "Set to user grid" hotkey I was hitting accidentally,
> but I cannot find one.
>
> I have switched my User Grid to 0.05 x 0.05 and I'll see if that at least
> stops the "off grid" problem.
>
> However, I suspect that either there is an undisclosed "Set to user grid"
> hotkey or something is overwriting the grid setting. If there was some way
> of alerting that the grid was set I might be able to provide replication
> instructions.
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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