Re: gEDA-user: Funny pad rotation

[Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Windell H. Oskay <windell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm having an issue exporting my board from PCB as a gerber.
>
> Please take a look at this screenshot:  http://flickr.com/gp/oskay/L98vvn
>
> The pads look normal-- square to the page --in PCB, but are rotated strangely when I export as gerber.
>
> The footprint, as it appears in my PCB document is:
>
> Element["" "gullwing_opto" "IRD201" "unknown" 325000 262500 -7000 -17500 0 100 ""]
> (
>        Pad[-6703 -1 -6700 1 4000 2000 5000 "" "1" "square"]
>        Pad[6700 1 6703 -1 4000 2000 5000 "" "2" "square"]
>        ElementLine [-3000 -8900 -3000 -6900 700]
>        ElementLine [-3000 8900 -3000 6900 700]
>        ElementLine [6700 -7900 6700 -4400 700]
>        ElementLine [6700 7900 6700 4400 700]
>        ElementLine [-6700 -7900 -6700 -4400 700]
>        ElementLine [-6700 7900 -6700 4400 700]
>        ElementLine [-6700 -7900 6700 -7900 700]
>        ElementLine [-6700 7900 6700 7900 700]
>        ElementArc [-3000 0 4000 4000 45 270 700]
>
>        )
>
> Is this a known bug?  Any workaround?
>

Are the pads exactly square?  (sorry about my laziness to do the math).

Try making them slightly rectangular.  That worked for me for going
the other way:  I found it impossible to rotate a perfectly square pad
45 degrees.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
-- 
Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
markrages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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