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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Req: Realign grid to cross-hair rather than mouse position
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:43:55 +0100
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Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) 
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> You can _only_ snap to pins and pads when drawing rat connections. No
> grid, only point-to-point drawing.

Fair enough. 
But what is the reasoning to disable snap to grid for all actions? E.g. 
for footprint placement or manipulating tracks, or vias.

---<)kaimartin(>---

PS: Are we switching to to posting on this list?
 
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 1 March 2016 at 23:11, Kai-Martin Knaak
> <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
> 
>> Stephan Böttcher wrote:
>>
>> > Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
>> > writes:
>> >
>> >> I too witness a loss of grid occasionally. When in this state, the
>> >> GU behaves like the grid is infinitesimal small. (Shot in the dark:
>> >> Maybe, it is an issue related to the cmil to nm conversion)
>> >
>> > Maybe that's because the rats layer got selected?  After you
>> > temporarily disabled all other layers?
>> >
>> Entirely possible.
>> I didn't know about this property of the rats layer, yet.
>> What is the reasoning behind this special treatment of the rats layer?
> 
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