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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've never used it.  Anyone else find it a must have?  You might want to
get some feedback from users to see if anyone would miss it.  It should
be undoable though.

On 4/12/2016 6:54 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> It's not even undoable - so not only is it kinda useless, it's _broken_.
> 
> Please? It's so much nicer not to have to maintain this stuff. :D
> 
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 06:40:07PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> I wonder how many of you are even aware of DIALOG_ORIENT_FOOTPRINTS. It's
>> hidden in the Secret Menu in pcbnew (the spread-and-place) one, menu item
>> Orient All Footprints. The code hasn't been touched since 2010 except a few
>> cleanups, and it seems really simplistic and useless to me. I was going to
>> upgrade it to floating-point angle entry like everything else, but....
>>
>> Does _anybody_ even use this? It seems utterly useless. I have no idea when
>> you'd want to globally apply an orientation to footprints. Can I just tear it
>> out?  :P
>>
>> -- 
>> Chris
> 
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