Comment 6 for bug 1660560

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Don Wills (donwills) wrote :

I'm new to Kicad. Just kicking the tires trying to decide Eagle vs Kicad. Using MacOS 10.14.5 on a 2017 iMac Pro with 27" Retina 5K monitor and Radeon Pro Vega 56 8GB. Kicad 5.1.4.

At first it appeared that grid dots and small crosses didn't work in Eeschema. On a hunch, I changed Grid thickness from the default 1.0 px to 2.0 px and all is well.

Suggestions:

1. Change the unit of measure for the Grid Style value from px to mils (or to some other device independent unit).

2. Make the default Grid thickness larger.

Also, I've been playing around with the Graphics (Accelerate) chooser preference in Eeschema. From what I can see, there is no difference whatsoever between any of the 5 choices. Is the meaning of this preference setting described anywhere?