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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

My preference is to define a reference position parameter for the
footprint this way it could be any position the user chooses.  There may
be reasons to use values other than pin 1 or the center of the
footprint.  That one part that never seems to auto insert correctly
comes to mind.  If you've done enough AI, you know what I'm talking
about.  If the reference position is not defined, the center of the
footprint is used.

On 6/16/2016 3:14 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> I will look into this; we can name any unreserved footprint property as
> "RefPin" (do we translate it?) and if the pin exists then we can generate
> the PinX PinY values in the centroid. The issue now is when do we output
> PinX, PinY columns and how do we handle the case where a user may
> have forgotten to explicitly define the RefPin on some parts?
> 
> - Cirilo
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio
> <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 07:12:50PM +0300, Eldar Khayrullin wrote:
>     > It will be good if it will be selectable as option
> 
>     Not an option, make it explicitly *select* the pin 1 for orientation, it
>     will save troubles!
> 
>     Adding it to the footprint properties would be the easiest IMHO
> 
>     --
>     Lorenzo Marcantonio
>     CZ Srl - Parma
> 
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