Position Relative To uses centroid, not origin
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KiCad |
Fix Released
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High
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Jeff Young | ||
Bug Description
In testing Position Relative To, I see it works nicely, allowing a select-snap, but strangely it seems to uses part-centroid, not part-origin ? (at least in my moderately recent build)
Centroid is ok for Via, and mounting holes, and also for many simple SMD parts, centroid is == origin, but for many other parts the centroid is not-quite the part origin.
It seems a strange default choice ?
Could it be fixed to be origin, or if there was some deliberate reason for doing centroid, allow users a choice of
[] Snap using Part origin (this is the same as move, & same as manual copy/paste of XY)
[] Snap using Part centroid
related reports suggest Position Relative To is a somewhat new feature, in both footprint editor & pcbnew.
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That would mean this fix should be applied to both use cases ?
| Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| assignee: | nobody → Jeff Young (jeyjey) |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| milestone: | none → 5.1.0 |
| KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Franck78 (fbourdonnec) wrote | #3 |
| Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Not intentional; just a hold-over from the previous implementation.