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Re: Request to allow text rotation/mirroring in any position/angle, silk screen

 

Le 06/05/2016 à 07:47, Lachlan Audas a écrit :
> Hi ,   Importing from Eagle to KiCad I'm hitting the problem of KiCad not
> allowing
> text in any position,  this make's for a big manual clean up.
> Of course there is too side's to this story. Not allowing the user to make
> easy mistakes.
> But from the import of side of things. From Eagle and maybe other pcb
> packages this is a real
> problem.
> 
> So I would propose a preference option to let text/mirroring rotation in
> any position.
> 
> Thus giving the user the option.   And make life much easy/better for
> importing from other packages.
> 
> Lachlan.
> 

What it *exactly* your problem ?

Text rotation can be set at any angle in Pcbnew.
Text position has no constraint.

Mirroring a text does not change its rotation.


-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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