X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-help] Orientation of components in X-Y (centroid) files To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com References: <58546c50 DOT c624620a DOT 290a2 DOT 6c85 AT mx DOT google DOT com> From: Carlos Moreno Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:56:45 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <58546c50.c624620a.290a2.6c85@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id uBGMuvnw003427 Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 16-12-16 05:35 PM, Lilith Bryant (dark141 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > [ ··· ] > In practice, I've never had a manufacturer spit back anything I've sent them. > I suspect they get a wild mix of messed up files, and components in tapes on random > angles, so they just eyeball everything and just go ahead and fix whatever is grossly > wrong. Hahaha --- I suspected this may be the case (which explains the difficulty to get a straight answer from them). But then, things like a polarized component (e.g., a diode, or a tantalum capacitor, etc.), it would stress me a bit having to count on them eyeballing the situation! Thanks, Carlos --