Axis locking hotkey

[Simon Richter]

When dragging items, it would be nice if there was a hotkey to lock the movement on 0/45/90 degree angles.

Ideal behaviour would be something similar to what vector drawing tools like Inkscape do: after starting a drag, pressing Ctrl will snap to the closest point with the same X or Y coordinate as the drag's origin point, allowing easy horizontal and vertical moves. It might also be useful to add 45 degree moves as well.

[Fabián Inostroza (fabianinostroza)]

This would be nice, it is already implemented for graphical lines, holding Ctrl while moving a line end allows it to move only in the vertical/horizontal direction

[Dino Ghilardi (dino-ghilardi)]

I agree. Also it could be useful to implement it for every action in powerpcb eeschema, libedit etc that require a start point and an end point (move, drag, draw segment, draw wire, draw bus etc.): that should also simplify implementation and make the behaviour consistent between tools/operations.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2310