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I want to connect four 1n4001 diodes in the familiar diamond configuration however I havent been able to rotate these by 45degrees. I get the error message that the part is not a board part or is not a package. Please tell me what I must do?

 

Regars Ron

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  • Ron Robinson wrote:

    >I want to connect four 1n4001 diodes in the familiar diamond

    >configuration however I havent been able to rotate these by 45degrees.

    >I get the error message that the part is not a board part or is not a

    >package. Please tell me what I must do?

     

    the schematic editor only supports 90° rotation. Thats mostly so that

    pins always stay on grid. Which in turn is required to connecting nets

    to the pins to work propperly.

     

    The only solution to your problem I see, is to create a new diode part

    that is allready rotated 45° in the symbol.

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    Lorenz

     

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  • Ron Robinson wrote:

    >I want to connect four 1n4001 diodes in the familiar diamond

    >configuration however I havent been able to rotate these by 45degrees.

    >I get the error message that the part is not a board part or is not a

    >package. Please tell me what I must do?

     

    the schematic editor only supports 90° rotation. Thats mostly so that

    pins always stay on grid. Which in turn is required to connecting nets

    to the pins to work propperly.

     

    The only solution to your problem I see, is to create a new diode part

    that is allready rotated 45° in the symbol.

    --

     

    Lorenz

     

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    Lorenz wrote:

    Ron Robinson wrote:

    >> I want to connect four 1n4001 diodes in the familiar diamond

    >> configuration however I havent been able to rotate these by

    >> 45degrees. I get the error message that the part is not a board part

    >> or is not a package. Please tell me what I must do?

     

    the schematic editor only supports 90° rotation. Thats mostly so that

    pins always stay on grid. Which in turn is required to connecting nets

    to the pins to work propperly.

     

    The only solution to your problem I see, is to create a new diode part

    that is allready rotated 45° in the symbol.

    --

     

    Lorenz

     

    That is the only solution but you can't call the part 1N4001 as you already

    have one of those devices so you might call it ,say, 1N4001-diag.

     

    If you are creating BOM (Bill of Materials ) listings this would likely

    cause a complication  as it would spoil it with this part name you cannot

    buy.

    What you could do is make a new library with this 45 degree symbol in it and

    from it you create the device which you can name 1N4001. With all the

    correct part numbers etc in the attributes. I feel the BOM would end up with

    the correct counts.

     

    You ADD orthogonal 1N4001 diodes from one library and the 45 degree ones

    from the other.

    Just and idea

     

    Forgetting the diamond shape and going for the parallel pairs of diodes is

    becoming very common. It's really only opening up the top and bottom of the

    diamond.

     

    HTH

    Warren

     

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