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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB footprints - what is the best way to change
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> Based on your latest comments about using absolute coordinates in
> the past - could what I have been seeing with the footprint origin -
> is this a legacy 'feature' that has been made non-functional with
> new PCB releases?

Could be.

> > When you paste a footprint onto a pcb it becomes an element.  At that
> > point, the 0,0 of the footprint is mapped to wherever the crosshair
> > is, and becomes the "location" of the element.
> 
> 
> That has not been seen by my experiments.  The value for the
> footprint origin does not appear to matter.

You're still confusing the element's location (the values in the
Element[] line) with the footprint's origin, which is the (0,0) that
all the other values are relative to.  They are not the same.