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Iacob, for sch drawings to look right everyone uses a 300 (unit?) x 300 grid.  For an eleven (9) pin symbol it would get out of hand size wise to hit the grid.  You might simply position the pins on the grid (which would not be a circle) and internal-to-the-symbol create the round part.  It will involve changinging the grid to 10 units, say, to draw its internals.  Shift the grid back to 100 before translating to 0,0 and saving.  Picture an 8-pin octal relay socket with two columns of scew terminals down each side on the module and modify til your heart is content.

Phil Taylor



> On Mar 6, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Sabin Iacob (iacobs AT m0n5t3r DOT info) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I've been looking for instances of symbols for vacuum tubes / nixies
> (building a nixie display thing), and can't find any.
> 
> Is it even possible to have pins rotated / have round bodied symbols
> with pins on the circumference? I can always go for a
> transistor-with-13-leads thing or for a box (like an IC), but I find
> none ot the alternatives thrilling (they'd work for getting a board
> done, as long as no one else sees the schematic, but it's an eyesore).
> 

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