Re: Getting the middle of an object to snap to grid - how?

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

The extents of the resistor symbol snap to the grid not the center of it.  If the grid isn't congruent with the symbol then the legs don't end up on grid intersections, but the centers l of the peaks may do.  However, a line end point - bezier, zzline, polyline line, all will snap to the leg end if you hover for the fraction of a second near it.

You can size a resistor and grid to be congruent as you wish.  If you get a resistor the way you like it, you can then group it so it isn't immediately editable without ungrouping.  Then copy it repeatedly as needed.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Chris G <cl isbd net> wrote:

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 03:24:01PM -0700, Arv Evans wrote:
> Hello
>
> One reason for having resistors, and other electronic components,
> snap to the grid is to make it easy to snap a connecting line or
> component to the end of that resistor.  For this reason it makes
> more sense for the resistor ends to snap to the grid than to have
> it's center snap to the grid.

Yes, this is exactly what I was expecting/wanting.

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