Eagle import: footprint field position not saved correctly

[Rene Poeschl]

Importing from eagle seems to transfer the footprint field (example reference) positions correctly. Saving, closing and reopening the pcb will however result in all positions being reset to how they are defined in the eagle footprint.

The strange thing is that if one opens the field properties of such a reference then it is saved correctly.

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eagle 9.3.2

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.2)-1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

@Rene, when you get a chance, please try turning off the automatic field positioning in the schematic editor settings and reloading the eagle file to see if it resolves your issues. If so, we may have to force the automatic positioned flag to true for each symbol in the schematic to prevent the automatic positioning from doing it's thing during eagle project imports.

[Rene Poeschl (poeschlr)]

@wayne this is about pcb new not the schematic. Are you sure the eeschema setting can have anything to do with it?

[Rene Poeschl (poeschlr)]

@stambaughw I tested your suggestion. The auto-place setting does not change the behavior here.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

@Rene, sorry about the confusion. I duplicated your results. Something is definitely wrong on the initial conversion from Eagle. Once you save and reload the board, the reference text positions seem to correct themselves.

[Rene Poeschl (poeschlr)]

I kind of observe the opposite. The initial import is how it looks in eagle, saving and reloading is when it differs.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision 8277aeec7d4194f7b46998ee5c66875546b58368
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=8277aeec7d4194f7b46998ee5c66875546b58368