send to back should send the element straight through
Bug #699588 reported by
Ben Jackson
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| pcb |
New
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
When you 'send to back', the element should arrive on the back as if it fell straight through the board. Currently the part ends up flipped around relative to how it was positioned on the top. This is unobvious with 2-pad parts because the ratsnest does not redraw to reflect the flip.
Revision history for this message
| haceaton (haceaton) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in geda-project: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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Elements in general have a right-side-up, although two lead devices often don't. Because elements can't be mounted upside-down in general, there has to be some sort of flip when moving to the back side. The choice is an up/down or left/right flip (I suppose you could also flip about an arbitrarily angled line, but ugh!). Presently pcb always flips the same way so your "bug" only occurs for components of certain rotation.
It sound like you would like for 2-pin components to be flipped about a line passing through the centers of both pads. That's a good feature request, but it's not a bug. Of course for more than two pins, there is no simple flip that will get what you want so an arbitrary flip line orientation will still be used.