DJ Delorie wrote:
Has anyone thought about doing a footprint rotating utility?
The problem isn't rotating the footprint, it's that nothing in pcb
expects pads to be other than orthogonal. For example, the gerber
exporter can't plot angled lines with square corners, it would have to
draw them as filled polygons. The autorouter doesn't know about them
either, nor does the optimizer.
The other problem is, of course, loss of precision. You end up
off-grid when you rotate back to zero.
would this work if you would add a field that defines the angle of the
part in the file format, so that the part is always stored at 0° but can
be rotated to any value just by specifying a different angle ?
this would lead to a file format change though.....