I think I found an annoying improvement... In pcbnew, when moving a module (i.e. the M key) the origin is not snapped anymore to the grid, i.e. the grid only gives the movement steps, not the absolute position. Was that wanted?
The annoying part is this: I have a board designed in metric, so most of the stuff is drawn and placed on a 0.5mm grid, in this case. However terminal blocks are 5,08mm pitch (i.e. imperial sized) and, since they are modular, they need to be aligned on a 100mil grid. My workflow before was: 1) Add the new terminal block module (the netlist import does this); it is inserted in the 'default' position (usually at the bottom right of the board, no idea why is that but doesn't matter); That position is on the metric grid; 2) Move the grid origin on the first terminal block (it's the reason I designed it for:P) and switch to the imperial grid; 3) Pick the new module with M, it snapped to the imperial grid and quickly could be moved in position. However now the behaviour in step 3 is different: 3) Pick the new module with M, it starts from the old position and moves in steps big as the imperial grid; which is mostly not useful (since it's not on *either* grid anymore, after moving!) Workaround: move manually the module to the new grid origin and the move it. Hardly convenient, I'd say... What do you think of this situation? Is there a reason for the change or am I missing something? -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl
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