Re: gEDA-user: Component rotation in PCB

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

michalwd1979 wrote:
> Hello, Please correct me if I'm wrong but now we can rotate
> components in PCB only in 90 deg. steps. Is there any option to put
> elements (I'm thinking about big TQFP packages) at 45 deg to each
> other? It would make my layout simpler if two ICs would face each
> other with corners not edges.

Arbitrary rotation came in a while back.  There was a recently fixed bug 
with rectangular pads clearing polygons incorrectly on rotated parts. 
You might need to build from CVS to pick up that fix. (Round end pads 
are OK going back quite a while).

You need to copy the part and then use the command entry window to enter
FreeRotateBuffer(45)
or whatever rotation that you want.

-dave

> 
> I've read a discussion about component rotation in PCB somewhere and
> I know that it would be complicated to have completely "free"
> rotation possible, but is this feature planned? I understand that it
> is usually no point in placing one component at 37.5 deg to the
> other, esspecially if we want to have a board automatically
> assembled, but in my opinion it would be really nice to have a 45 deg
> rotation option.
> 
> Best Regards, Michael Widlok
> 
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