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Hi, I am running KiCad 6.04 under Win 10 Pro x64 and I am keen to try "auto placement" of footprints.

The board I am trying it on has a number of locked connectors but when I select the whole board and use Auto Place on selected items
it moves the locked items as well :-(? There are only 5 locked items but 150 other components? so selecting only the unlocked items
is a pain.

It also does not respect "keepout" areas which strikes me as wrong.

Is there an option to have it respect locked items ??

If I move the unlocked items off the board and use the "off board" option it does what I want, but moving the unlocked items offboard
is, as I have said above, a pain.

Regards,
Dave

If you use the selection filter in the lower right corner.
- Have only Footprints checked - and NOT Locked Items
- Area select the entire board area.
Now you have all of the unlocked Footprints selected.

Continue with your Auto Placement

(I use this for selectively using the "Geographical Reannotate"? also - when
I want some components left alone)