Re: gEDA-user: How to make PCB 1 mm connector?

["harry eaton" <bumpelo@comcast.net>]

> When I rotated the symbol 180 the name "LCD" also rotated and the only
> way I can figure out how to stop it from being upside down was to edit
> the element file to change the direction attribute.

You can use the rotate tool, just click on the element name.

>
> > Element[0x00000000 "" "J1" "" 55002 70041 -9000 -7000 0 100 0x00000000]
>
> The docs say TextX/TextY appear before the direction flag, the zero before
the
> 100, but I was not sure why that took four sets of numbers?

It doesn't take 4 numbers; the element definition vairables begin:

Flags, "name", "name", "name", X, Y, TX, TY, TO, TS, TFlags ...
Flags are the element flags
X, Y is the element position on the board (meaningless within the library)
TX, TY is the text position relative to X, T
TO is the text orientation
TS is the text scale facor
TFlags are the text flags.

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