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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just asked on forum.kicad.info.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:05:03PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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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