When placing a common library part such as a resistor or capacitor it's
often necessary to rotate it to fit in with how you are drawing a certain
part of your schematic. For any one device, library symbols can currently
only be drawn in a single rotational position so when you then rotate the
part your text is now no longer how you would like it and you are required
to smash the device and manually replace all the text in the right
positions and orientations. This is okay for a handful of components but
not good for a large design. It's fine for a hobbyist just throwing
together small projects for their own use but as a professional design
engineer, when I present clients with schematics I have drawn they need to
look professional and this is causing additional work to achieve this.
It would be nice if several versions of a symbol (up to 4) could be
provided which would automatically be cycled through upon rotate if they
were available. This would mean we could create nice sets of symbols in our
libraries and rotate away to our hearts content safe in the knowledge that
we wouldn't be building up a mountain of smash and reposition work down the
line.
A quick fix I tried for this was to have -H and -V variants of resistors,
capacitors etc but this just became a pain in the BOM! (pun intended!)
Many thanks,
Rachael
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