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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

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.

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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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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.

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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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warrenbrayshaw wrote on Tue, 05 February 2013 02:08

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.

Only if you have very clumsy BOM software.  Making different library parts

for different orientations is very common with Eagle.  BOM generation for

this has been solved long ago.

Quote:

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.

Yeah, that's how I usually do it when drawing a full wave bridge from

discrete diodes.  I think it is at least as intuitive in the schematic.

However, usually I use a integrated 4 pin full wave bridge part.  You can

draw the internal diode symbols in that part any way you like.

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