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Eagle move function V4 vs V5 problem

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exxos over 13 years ago

I have always used V4 of eagle, and when you need to move/rotate objects you just highlight the parts and right click to rotate or just move the mouse to move all grouped objects. Though th eproblem is, in V5 there now is a menu, so now you have to go down to "move group" to do the same thing, unfortunatly this has proven to be a real pain...

 

The problem is, I use the mouse in V4 to pinpoint what I want to move, for example, if I wanted a resistor rotated, in V4 I could just select the part, then right click to rotate. no problem, BUT, in V5, since the menu is there now, you have to move the mouse to go down the menu, so when you selct what you want, your mouse is now somewhere else on the pcb, so the resistor ends up now where the mouse is, and if you have a lot of traces going to that part, the pcb just ends up in a total mess, so then I try and guess where the part was located before and move it from where I think it was to where I think it should be now, its pretty impossible to do.

 

Another example is if I just wanted to move the resistor a few dots in one direction, say right, as after selection in the menu, the resistor is elsewhere, so it can be 100 dots down the pcb, so I loose the Y alignment, and also i loose the X alignment.

 

In V4 the menu wasn't there at all, you just center the mouse on the part, then right click to move the part, the mouse always in the right place and I can drag the part a couple of dots and there is no problem.

 

Its a stupid little thing, but the menu in V5 is annoying, is there anyway to turn this menu off ? If not I will have to just stick to the older V4, which works great, just V5 has some better features in some respects. 

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