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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