pcb

square pins not rotated correct after FreeRotateBuffer

Bug #699270 reported by duncan_drennan on 2008-11-27

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pcb	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

After a 45Â° rotation of a "square" through hole pin the pin copper is not correctly aligned with the rest of the component. This could result in copper clearance issues. PCB version 20080202.

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duncan_drennan (duncan-drennan) wrote on 2008-11-27:

through hole square spin at 0 and 45 degrees Edit (16.4 KiB, application/x-pcb-layout)

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DJ Delorie (djdelorie) wrote on 2010-11-08:

This is a limitation of the internal data structures. Please use round holes for rotated parts until we can redesign them.

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Colin D Bennett (colinb) wrote on 2012-06-04:

The add to DJ's workaround, you can actually get a "square" pad for the through-hole pin by using overlapping SMD pads. Simply make your pin as usual, and overlay an "almost-square" surface mount pad with it. Make this SMD pad slightly non-square to overcome the ridiculous restriction that prevents rotating squares (e.g., make it 70.00 mil wide and 70.01 mil long).

Make sure you use two SMD pads, with one having the "onsolder" flag set, if you want pads on both top and bottom of the board.

Traumflug (mah-jump-ing) on 2015-08-26