On 10/14/13 19:55, jp charras wrote: > Le 14/10/2013 19:26, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : >>> Pcbnew rotate has a potential bug relative to the Undo command: in >>> preferences the rotation can be adjusted to 45 or 90 degrees. >>> for 90 degrees, no problems. >>> But for 45 degrees, the undo does not work, because the undo rotate code >>> assumes a 90 degrees rotation (the actual rotation angle is not stored). >>> >>> >> How do you rotate a block 45° in Pcbnew? The only command paths I see >> are the block context menu rotate command and the rotate hot key both of >> which rotate the block 90° clockwise. > > The Preference/general menu has an option (from a contributor who never > fix issues created by this option) which allows user to choose between > 90 or 45 degrees. > When the 45 degrees is selected, rotation angle for footprints and > blocks (by hotkey or popup menu) is 45 degrees. > Because this option does not work for all items (for instance texts) and > does not work for Undo commands, I am thinking this option is a just a bug. It's buggy and I reported it a long time ago, here is my small list with rotation-based bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1066182 https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1066183 https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1066185
> It can be removed or fixed. > My opinion is this broken option can be removed. Which one do you want to remove? For my part, the 45 degree rotation is really useful. Bye, imp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
