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Most of the professional tier CAD suites do it as well. It's one of the Quirks^tm of that field. Newcomers to the field go "WTF??" but the old hats go "yeah an
by indrora 1y ago
Most of the professional tier CAD suites do it as well.
It's one of the Quirks^tm of that field. Newcomers to the field go "WTF??" but the old hats go "yeah and you'll learn to appreciate it."
And you do learn to appreciate it. the cursor warping in KiCad is absolutely essential to high level operation because it means you don't think where you're zooomed to now, you point, you zoom, you've zoomed. Once you get used to some of the keyboard shortcuts to fly around the board, you get used to focusing on the center of the display rather than having to eye around looking for the component, which might be buried in a few layers of traces and vias on-screen.
- IshKebab 1y ago> Most of the professional tier CAD suites do it as well. Hmm I'm not sure. I've used NX, Pro/E, Solidworks and Fusion 360 very briefly and none of them did it. Which ones do?
- indrora 1y agoAutoCAD historically has, as does some configurations of SolidEDGE, DraftSight. It's much more a feature of specifically 2D CAD suites it seems; 3D comes with a different paradigm of movement, and in 2D CAD you're working in a different mindset: 3D CAD is almost all CSG, whereas 2D CAD is mostly targeted at emulating a drafting table.