gEDA-user: PCB: Rotate in steps of 30 and 45 degree?

[Dan McMahill]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>>Has anyone thought about doing a footprint rotating utility?
> 
> 
> The problem isn't rotating the footprint, it's that nothing in pcb
> expects pads to be other than orthogonal.  For example, the gerber
> exporter can't plot angled lines with square corners, it would have to
> draw them as filled polygons.  The autorouter doesn't know about them
> either, nor does the optimizer.

or some of the connection scanning code and DRC code.


FWIW, there was a patch submission on sourceforge which allowed more 
rotations but it didn't address all of the issues.

-Dan