[issue] Atlum Designer automatically attracts mouse to component : ( - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: asmodat
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 08, 2015, 10:34:57 pm
content: When I am entering PCB designer and trying to move one component then left clicking to pick it up, altium automatically moves my mouse to other component lest say F1 every single time so I am not able to do anything. For example it is impossible to select multiple components, because asap I click LMB my mouse is picking up some component in other section of the board.Please help me fix it.it looks like this:As you can see there is like big green line appearing pointing toward some empty space (I guess this is removed room), i tried to remove and Disable all Room rules, but this does not help.What's more when I right click on other component a windows appears with selection of multiple ones even if there is only one component in this place:it looks like this:

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 12:10:43 am
content: lemm guess .. f1 is a footprint you have made ? where is the origin for that part ?

author: DerekG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 01:35:20 am
content: Quote from: asmodat on March 08, 2015, 10:34:57 pmNo the "big green line" is not related to Rooms. It is showing the "mid position" between Q3 & F6. If you place F1 at this "mid position" your total track lengths between Q3 & F6 will be the minimum length possible.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 03:13:03 am
content: On drag, Altium normally centers the cursor on a snap point of the device. Usually the footprint origin (edit the footprint in the library and find the 0,0 coordinate) or the snap point of objects in the footprint (usually the pads...maybe always the pads?).The reason is, this facilitates either lining up the footprint with existing traces (grab it by the pad, and move into the snap range of a trace on the selected layer) or to the grid (by grabbing at the origin).If you don't wish to snap the part to another coordinate or grid, make your selection then press M,S (Move - Selection). The selection will move relative to the coordinates you click.Tim

author: asmodat
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 06:27:15 am
content: Thank you for your response. There was actually nothing wrong with the footprint (this aligning to footprint origin should not appear after clicking in any place in the circuit only after clicking on part, and that was my issue. And whats more there was many of Fx parts, but only F1 was bugged).Any way the solution was to remove the part from schematic, update PCB, re-add it again to schematic, update PCB (In this exact order) and problem disappeared. Guess I will never know what really happened although it is not the first time.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 03:22:06 pm
content: I've seen "spooky" behavior before by doing:Filter - select objects in queryM, S to move stuff aroundSHIFT+C to deselectWait, why are some parts all kinds of wrong?CTRL+Z+Z+Z...What happens is, if your query included locked primitives owned by a part, it'll still move them, even though they're locked (usually with a This Selection Contains Locked Primitives... popup). You could move all primitives inside a part, giving the same effect as a severely off-center origin. Or, if even just one primitive is left in its original position by not having been selected, the extent of the footprint might end up really huge, which might be what happened here?Updating the affected footprint(s) or deleting and replacing them is probably the best, yeah.Tim