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Date:	Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:03:40 -0700
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] error in footprint rotation
From:	Russell Dill <Russ DOT Dill AT asu DOT edu>
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Filippo Micheletti
<filippomicheletti AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> I've found an error on rotation of footprint containing square pins and
> pads: if you rotate a footprint of this kind with freeRotateBuffer(), for
> example by 45 degrees, you'll obtain that all is correctly rotated except
> for square landpatterns wich remain orthogonal to x-y axes.
> In footprint containing square pads (lines starting an terminating at the
> same point) you can surpass this issue with a little trick, just adding a
> mill cent to the end point of the line that describes the pad (but you have
> to modify manually each footprints...), but for square pads I don't see any
> trick...
> Is there a way to surpass this problem?

Its a known issue and you described how to get around it perfectly.
Another work around is two rectangular pads.

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