Re: gEDA-user: gschem usage: rotate symbol, leave text alone

[Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when working with gschem, I next to never want rotated text. However, by 
> default attributes seem to stick to the graphics and rotate with it. I 
> find myself unrotating the text after I rotated the symbol by 90°. An 
> alternative is to select the graphics only. But this requires many mouse 
> clicks (select symbol, click on each and every attribute while holding 
> the shift key).
> 
> Is there a way to configure gschem to not rotate or move the attributes 
> while rotating a symbol?
> 

Unfortunately most CAD system do that and rotate it all (Eagle does it, 
too). Kind of a nuisance but often I create two symbols, one rotated and 
one not. Then I don't have to go through all the mouse clickaroo to 
unrotate descriptor and refdes. Kind of a duct-tape fix :-)

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/



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