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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

In Pcbnew that is already the case, shift+R rotates the other way around.
Eeschema doesn't have that shortcut.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:15 PM Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2019-06-10 6:35 p.m., Andrew Lutsenko wrote:
> > I like to keep rotation angle set to 90 because that covers 98% of cases
> and
> > is it's faster to press R two or three times instead of 4 or 6 times (I
> > frequently go the wrong way around since unfortunately R in pcbnew
> rotates
> > ccw and R in eeschema rotates cw, that is something that should be made
> > consistent).
>
> Hm... I can't say I had really noticed that the rotation directions are
> opposite between the two. After a quick test I noticed that you can rotate
> something in the default direction but if you go too far you have to hit R
> more times to "back up".
>
> It would be useful to have R to do rotations in one direction and either
> Ctrl+R or Shift+R to do rotations in the other.
>
> --
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>
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