Re: gEDA-user: 45deg rotation of parts

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:18:54PM -0500, 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

That sounds as an extremely elegant idea :)

CL<