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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the same vein, what about the autoplace functions? I tried them a couple
of times just to see what they would do (really to see if it was worth it
to port over to GAL) and yikes. It is way, way too simplistic to do
anything useful and from the small amount I tested it has a handful of
issues with it.

Jon

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:18 PM Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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