Abd ulRahman Lomax wrote: > > At 09:34 AM 4/9/2002 +0200, Edi Im Hof wrote: > I noticed this also. I just hit the spacebar fout times (rotate 360�) and > everything is fine. Clearly a bug. > > Actually, a feature. Here is why this happens, I think: > > Protel assumes, when you are placing parts, that you will want the relative > locations of reference designators etc. to be as you used for the last part > placed. So it puts, if I am correct, the reference designator there. When > the previous part was different from the one you now want to place, this > can be a very unuseful position. But Protel, at the same time, has realized > that if you rotate the part from the previous position, you will not want > the same reference designator position, so it restores the designator text > to the default position. Thus if you want default, simply rotate the part. > If you want what you used before, leave it unrotated.
Sounds like a good theory... However, I find that Protel _always_ (well, almost always) places the ref des and value some distance from the part, regardless of how this text is positioned on any existing part, or even if I have never used that part before. A double flip of the part will always bring the text in closer, to the expected position. When placing multiple copies of a part, the first one will get the misplaced text, but if it is corrected, successive parts will probably have the text correctly placed. I consider this to be a bug (not severe, but somewhat annoying) -- Peter Bennett TRIUMF 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada GPS and NMEA info and programs: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter/index.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
