eeschema: autoplace doesn't work right anymore - bounding box issues?
Description
The behavior of the Autoplace Fields command in eeschema has changed a bunch since 5.x and it's not very usable anymore. I'm not entirely sure exactly what has changed, it seems to have a funny idea of what bounding boxes are at least.
Steps to reproduce
- Place a small component (resistor, capacitor) oriented with its pins on top and bottom, such that the labels need to go on the side.
- Press O to autoplace.
- Note that the labels overlap, the second one should be another grid point down.
It also seems to not as consistently set snap-to-grid and justification, and nudging up to avoid overlap with wires doesn't work, but I'll have to double check those later when I'm not at work.
KiCad Version
Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.99.0-3832-gb31ebae651), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.72.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1h zlib/1.2.11 zstd/1.4.5 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.1 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
Platform: Linux 5.8.13-arch1-1 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, , x11
Build Info:
Date: Oct 7 2020 01:21:59
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.72.0
OCC: 7.4.0
Curl: 7.72.0
ngspice: 32
Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON