Re: gEDA-user: 45deg rotation of parts

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 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

Also someone would need to go over the connection scanning code and see 
if it still works with 45 degree pads.  I think that was one of the 
concerns when this topic came up before.

-Dan