Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Rotate in steps of 30 and 45 degree?

[Florian Steiper <florian.steiper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Has anyone thought about doing a footprint rotating utility?
>>     
>
> The problem isn't rotating the footprint, it's that nothing in pcb
> expects pads to be other than orthogonal.  For example, the gerber
> exporter can't plot angled lines with square corners, it would have to
> draw them as filled polygons.  The autorouter doesn't know about them
> either, nor does the optimizer.
>
> The other problem is, of course, loss of precision.  You end up
> off-grid when you rotate back to zero.
>   

would this work if you would add a field that defines the angle of the
part in the file format, so that the part is always stored at 0° but can
be rotated to any value just by specifying a different angle ?

this would lead to a file format change though.....

ciao

    Florian



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