I've been working in Altium since version 10 and my usual workflow in schematic capture has been:
- Freely drag components around with mouse left-click-hold (attached nets don't stick to component's pins)
- While holding the mouse, pressing the spacebar would rotate the component
I've recently installed a clean version 17 (i.e. not an upgrade of existing installation) on Win10 x64 and now to do the same actions in schematic capture I have to hold down "CTRL" key, which is very annoying:
- To freely drag components (so that the nets remain detached from the pins) I have to use CTRL+left-mouse.
- To rotate while dragging, I have to press "CTRL"+Space.
I quickly got fed up with this, unable to find an option to modify this behavior, I uninstalled version 17 and installed 16, which has been known to work as expected in the past. Immediately after the installation version 16 behaved as expected (no need to use "CTRL" key). But now, without any further computer/software modification the installed version 16 behaves as the version 17 did (i.e. "CTRL" key is required for the above operations). No options inside Altium have been modified to provoke a different program behavior.
Can anyone else confirm this behavior? Is there an option in Altium that I'm overlooking that would give me a choice of behavior in this regard?
I'm generally suspecting a Win10/.NET direction, but am not sure how to troubleshoot this.
Thanks!
