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How to move component so that the pad aligns to the pad of another component (like Altium does)

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When moving a component, is there a way to make the pad line up with the component pad it is connecting to ?

For example, with reference to the screen capture below...

I want to route a straight track (net +1V2D) between the capacitor (on the left) and the processor pin (on the right)

Therefore I want to move the capacitor (vertically down) so that the pad aligns with the processor pin.

I have a grid setup and use the capacitor pad as the pickup point, but using the grid to do this sort of thing is difficult and restrictive.

For example, the pitch and/or offset might be different on the x or y axis and different components have different pitches etc 

There should be an option when moving components which automatically overrides the grid and 'snaps' the component so that the pads align

I've come from using Altium which had this feature, but I'm finding that Orcad seems to have a lot of these useful features missing (as well as being counter intuitive and restrictive)

Out of the 5 PCB tools I've used, Orcad is the only tool where you cannot cross probe from the PCB back to schematic (which is a ridiculous feature to miss out).  I would expect a free tool to have limited features, but even Design Spark PCB can cross probe in both directions !


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