I was just creating a new PCB component and I needed to position a shape freehand and I can't find the option to turn off grid snapping. I know it was possible to do it because I've done it many times in the past. I've been using EPC since the days of DOS and you could always turn off snapping to the grid.
Searched the help file - nothing.
I just upgraded to v.16. Am I going daft, is there a bug, or was freehand movement deliberately taken out?
For the snap options you can only go down as far as 1/40th of the grid. This was changed a few releases back, as we were finding that people were using freehand rather too readily particularly in PCB and ending up with problems in things like rounding of coordinate values in outputting to Gerber.
Having said that, if you set your grid fairly small then 1/40th of that should pretty much equate to freehand anyway.
So you modified your PCB design software to accomodate people who don't know how to design PCBs?
True, 1/40th snapping on a 0.1" grid is accurate enough for most practical applications, but it's the principle of the thing! Couldn't you have put in an "allow freehand" switch tucked away in an ini file for those of us who know what we are doing?
Help! Really basic problem...
Posted - 26 Jun 2013 : 09:58:59
