Re: gEDA-user: 45deg rotation of parts

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I suggest that PCB supported 45deg roation of parts. Because some
> PCI chips are rotated 45 degrees so the wires to the PCI connector
> are shorter.

We talked about that at the Freedawg meeting last night.  There are
some issues with losing accuracy when you're off-grid (esp when you
rotate it back on-grid).  Plus drawing angled square pads has to be
done as a polygon.

I think we'd need to remember the element as non-rotated, and
calculate the rotation on the fly, rather than rotate the contents of
the element.  Otherwise the errors accumulate.  That means a file
format change :-P