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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Strange PCB behaviour when moving components.
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:59:49 +0200
michalwd1979 <michalwd1979 AT o2 DOT pl> wrote:

> Dear Members & Developers,
> 
> I experienced strange PCB behaviour when using mouse to drag a
> component or even when trying to select it. I have a board with
> some long wire "bridges" that are added as a components to
> design. When these bridges are horizontal or vertical only drag
> and select works as expected. However when some of them are
> rotated (by free rotate buff function) it becomes very hard to
> select or move right one.

This sounds like it might be related to pcb's inability to rotate
anything 'square' (the workaround is to make them slightly
non-square, i.e. add 0.001mm to one side).
That bug means square pads are a no-no, but I wonder about pins with
the 'square' flag set.

Regards,
Colin