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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 06/05/2016 à 20:06, Lachlan Audas a écrit :
> I think the confusing ( my mistake)   footprint text verse free text.
> while free text allows any position,   editing the text of a foot print in
> PcbNew impose
> I lot of restrictions,   And this is where I having the problem importing
> from Eagle.
> So  my title should have been "Request to removing the restrictions on
> footprint text rotation".
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> So do you think there is any change the restrictions can be removed ?
> 
> Make life a lot easy for importing from eagle and other pcb packages.
> 
> 
> Lachlan.

"A lot of restrictions" ?

I do not understand.
The only one constraint is limiting the rotation from -90.0 to 90.0 degrees.

the reason if the fact a reference or value is not readable when its rotation is near 180.0 degrees.
Therefore, without this constraint, each time you rotate a footprint by 180.0 degrees, you have to
change the fields (value + ref) rotation (set them to 0.0), if you want to be able to read them.

This is not acceptable.

What is the problem when importing a board ?
The issues could be due to the importers, and not the constraints for fields rotations.


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> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:37 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Le 06/05/2016 à 08:30, Lachlan Audas a écrit :
>>> Hi JP,
>>> Thanks for the quick comeback.
>>> Perhaps a screen cast will show up the problems. Better then trying to
>> put
>>> it all into words.
>>> Would that be ok for you ?, ( I will link to my server,  so wont be
>>> attachment :)
>>>
>>> Lachlan.
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>> Yes, a screen cast is OK.
>>
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>>>
>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:05 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
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>>>> 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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