Le 06/05/2016 à 20:06, Lachlan Audas a écrit : > I think the confusing ( my mistake) footprint text verse free text. > while free text allows any position, editing the text of a foot print in > PcbNew impose > I lot of restrictions, And this is where I having the problem importing > from Eagle. > So my title should have been "Request to removing the restrictions on > footprint text rotation". > > So do you think there is any change the restrictions can be removed ? > > Make life a lot easy for importing from eagle and other pcb packages. > > > Lachlan.
"A lot of restrictions" ? I do not understand. The only one constraint is limiting the rotation from -90.0 to 90.0 degrees. the reason if the fact a reference or value is not readable when its rotation is near 180.0 degrees. Therefore, without this constraint, each time you rotate a footprint by 180.0 degrees, you have to change the fields (value + ref) rotation (set them to 0.0), if you want to be able to read them. This is not acceptable. What is the problem when importing a board ? The issues could be due to the importers, and not the constraints for fields rotations. > > > > > > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:37 PM, jp charras <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Le 06/05/2016 à 08:30, Lachlan Audas a écrit : >>> Hi JP, >>> Thanks for the quick comeback. >>> Perhaps a screen cast will show up the problems. Better then trying to >> put >>> it all into words. >>> Would that be ok for you ?, ( I will link to my server, so wont be >>> attachment :) >>> >>> Lachlan. >> >> Yes, a screen cast is OK. >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:05 PM, jp charras <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>>> Le 06/05/2016 à 07:47, Lachlan Audas a écrit : >>>>> Hi , Importing from Eagle to KiCad I'm hitting the problem of KiCad >> not >>>>> allowing >>>>> text in any position, this make's for a big manual clean up. >>>>> Of course there is too side's to this story. Not allowing the user to >>>> make >>>>> easy mistakes. >>>>> But from the import of side of things. From Eagle and maybe other pcb >>>>> packages this is a real >>>>> problem. >>>>> >>>>> So I would propose a preference option to let text/mirroring rotation >> in >>>>> any position. >>>>> >>>>> Thus giving the user the option. And make life much easy/better for >>>>> importing from other packages. >>>>> >>>>> Lachlan. >>>>> >>>> >>>> What it *exactly* your problem ? >>>> >>>> Text rotation can be set at any angle in Pcbnew. >>>> Text position has no constraint. >>>> >>>> Mirroring a text does not change its rotation. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >> > -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
