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WinFIG => Feature Requests => Topic started by: khdetw on October 19, 2012, 12:47:09 PM

Title: Constrained Move
Post by: khdetw on October 19, 2012, 12:47:09 PM

Constrained Move seems to be missing, although snap to grid is usually a workable substitute.

Title: Re: Constrained Move
Post by: khdetw on October 19, 2012, 12:58:03 PM

Actually, using Winfig a bit more, the lack of constrained move & copy is a big problem compared to xfig. When copying objects with snap-to-grid enabled they to not align with the parent object. I have to place the copied object then to a Move to align it with the grid.

Title: Re: Constrained Move
Post by: Andreas on October 22, 2012, 10:34:37 PM

WinFIG can snap to grid, snap to vertex and constrain new line points using manhattan/mountain/mounthattan geometry.

WinFIG 3.x could also contrain moves to x or y axis only. I will add that again in the next release.

I don't know if Xfig does that so much better. When I have an ellipse and choose the wide grid under "point posn", then I cannot even grab the ellipse if it doesn't touch any of the grid intersections. Same for other shapes.

I didn't really understand what I meant by " they to not align with the parent object". Perhaps, if I could understand your idea, this could be a feature to implement.