On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:18:54PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > I suggest that PCB supported 45deg roation of parts. Because some > > PCI chips are rotated 45 degrees so the wires to the PCI connector > > are shorter. > > We talked about that at the Freedawg meeting last night. There are > some issues with losing accuracy when you're off-grid (esp when you > rotate it back on-grid). Plus drawing angled square pads has to be > done as a polygon. > > I think we'd need to remember the element as non-rotated, and > calculate the rotation on the fly, rather than rotate the contents of > the element. Otherwise the errors accumulate. That means a file > format change :-P
That sounds as an extremely elegant idea :) CL<
