I did not know that. I think the "no snap to grid" option reachable with Shift-Ctrl is not visible in any menu nor in the hotkey list.... People will have hard time to find it I suppose unless they read the manual.
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:47 PM, jp charras <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 30/03/2017 à 15:34, John Beard a écrit : > > Ctrl is already used for angle snap. > > > > I think there should be a generic way to turn grid snap on and off in > > all GAL modes. Then it stays on or off until you toggle it again. > > FYI, temporary turn grid snap off exists in Eeschema (when moving > objects): Maj+Ctrl > > > > > > This is a little bit tricky to do as a global action due to how the > > GAL tool manager keeps VIEW_CONTROL state for each tool. This is why > > grid snapping in selection mode (for which there are several issues on > > LP) is harder than it looks. > > > > Having a loads of "else if (evt->IsAction( ToggleGridAction)) " > > statements in every GAL event loop would be a pain. > > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Fabrizio Tappero > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I second this > >> > >> Regards > >> Fabrizio > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Good point Kevin. > >>> > >>> Can we have "hold down CTRL" to disable snap to grip feature? That > would > >>> cover the caliper and other myriad of uses when snap to grid is > unwanted. > >>> > >>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Kevin Cozens <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 2017-03-28 03:25 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> this ruler (caliper icon) does look really good. > >>>> > >>>> [snip] > >>>>> > >>>>> It is often a good idea to have a way to measure footprint size. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> The caliper tool is a useful addition to Kicad. The only one thing > I've > >>>> noticed about it is it only lets you measure distances from one grid > point > >>>> to another. If you need to measure starting from the edge of a pad > (for > >>>> example) to some other point you can't unless you change the grid > spacing. > >>>> > >>>> If there is a way to tell the caliper to not snap to grid points when > you > >>>> are using it to make a measurement I haven't figured out how to do > that. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Cheers! > >>>> > >>>> Kevin. > > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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