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

[Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Salewski wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.01.2009, 09:43 -0800 schrieb Joerg:
> 
>> 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 :-)
>>
> 
> Similar question, similar answer from me :-)
> 
> http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Dec-2008/msg00007.html
> 
> Rotating symbols often makes new alignment of text necessary, so I
> prefer to have a horizontal and a vertical instance of symbols.
> 
> It may be nice to have two or more views in one symbol -- horizontal,
> vertical, with/without pin numbers...
> 
> But there are more important things to do ...
> 

Yes, there are definitely more important things. And even if Peter fixed 
that then someone would want yet another symbol rendering that makes 
refdeses glows in the dark and has 3D effects to match Vista ...

<ducking for cover now>

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/



_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user