Thanks Ian,
All though I have now received two opposing replies it seems.
For clarification:
In P99SE when you rotated a SCH symbol containing text, the text would
rotate correctly but it would also move compared to the other details and
features of the symbol. i.e. prior to rotating the symbol the text is beautiful
and located precisely where you placed it in the SCH library. When you rotate
the symbol, the text will also rotate but it's location relative to the other
symbol details changes. In a lot of cases the text ended up over other text,
pin names, pin numbers or other details of the symbol. It appears as though
this is related to where the origin of the text is specified and the text
rotates about it's origin point rather than in relation to the rest of the
symbol.
i.e. A pin name or number rotates correctly and stays in place exactly where
you would want it to be when you rotate the part. The text in a symbol moves
and is completely useless in some case because it now overlaps other detail(s).
Sometimes text that was located within the symbol outline and can be found
outside the symbol outlines after a rotation of the part.
Cheesey P99SE work-around:
For anybody interested, a cheesy work-around for P99SE was to use a pin
to place the additional text in the symbol. Remember that I just stated that
pin numbers and labels rotated correctly. Specify a pin with the text you want
in it's Pin name or number field. Move the pin around until the text is located
where you want it. Then edit the pin and turn your pin into a 0 length pin
(leaves just a small dot). Now you have text in the symbol that will rotate
properly and stay where you wanted it for any rotation during use in the
schematic. This solution does have some possible connectivity issues if those
text pins were to connect to a wire or something unintended like that. It also
has ramifications when porting libraries over the DXP, this is where I started
chasing this issue. It was because the DXP library compile process was giving
me all these errors because of duplicated "" pins.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
1925 Kirschner Rd.,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:18 PM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Query about DXP feature/fix.
On 06:48 AM 19/03/2005, Brad Velander said:
>Any of you DXP users out there,
> I was just wondering if Altium has ever fixed a common problem
> that drives us nuts in P99SE. Placing text within a library SCH symbol,
> will the text annotation properly maintain it's desired
> location/orientation within the symbol as it is rotated and placed in a
> schematic?
>
> In P99SE as soon as you rotated a symbol any text annotation
> within that symbol goes screwy for orientation and location.
Brad,
This has been fixed. Text in a Sch Lib component will stay in the correct
location as you rotate/flip the component. The text always seems to remain
in the "correct" orientation - what I mean is that if you flip the
component in the Y direction, the text remains the right way up (it is not
flipped) - but it does get put in the correct location. If you rotate the
symbol on the sch text, that was horizontal, will be put vertical when the
component is rotated by +/-90 degrees. As you rotate through 180 degree,
though, the text will flip over to remain right-readable, you don't get
backwards text. It does sit in the correct location - or very close to it in.
Certainly the problem of the location shifting seems to be fixed. I no
longer have to write out text using lines to make it look good when rotated.
Sorry for the late reply,
Ian
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