Quite Frankly, I'm disgusted at this whole debacle. As a developer, I would put this on the priority list. At the very least, allow users to downgrade to v1.30.
Quite Frankly, I'm disgusted at this whole debacle. As a developer, I would put this on the priority list. At the very least, allow users to downgrade to v1.30.
Ok. If I have multiple components on the PCB editor, I cannot... Absolutely CANNOT rotate them all at once without errors. If there are traces attached, it's even worse as they randomly get placed somewhere else in the design space. Yesterday I laid out about 30 components and routed the traces before I realized that I had placed them 90 degrees off. I knew about the trace misplace problem so I selected all of the traces, copied them to the clipboard using a known hotspot, then deleted them. Next I selected all of the components and pressed 'M' to move them then attempted to rotate them using SHIFT+SPACE. They were moved someplace else in the workspace so before I released the mouse button, I pressed escape. BUT THEN, the hotspot snap did not work on those components. I attempted to move one of them to get the hotspot snap back but to no avail. Yes I was on the correct layer. All other components that hadn't moved had hotspot snap enabled. I got frustrated and closed the program. This morning I ended up moving each component individually and re-routed all of the traces. What a waste of my time.
FYI, I have my rotate set up to 45 degrees.
Ok. If I have multiple components on the PCB editor, I cannot... Absolutely CANNOT rotate them all at once without errors. If there are traces attached, it's even worse as they randomly get placed somewhere else in the design space. Yesterday I laid out about 30 components and routed the traces before I realized that I had placed them 90 degrees off. I knew about the trace misplace problem so I selected all of the traces, copied them to the clipboard using a known hotspot, then deleted them. Next I selected all of the components and pressed 'M' to move them then attempted to rotate them using SHIFT+SPACE. They were moved someplace else in the workspace so before I released the mouse button, I pressed escape. BUT THEN, the hotspot snap did not work on those components. I attempted to move one of them to get the hotspot snap back but to no avail. Yes I was on the correct layer. All other components that hadn't moved had hotspot snap enabled. I got frustrated and closed the program. This morning I ended up moving each component individually and re-routed all of the traces. What a waste of my time.
FYI, I have my rotate set up to 45 degrees.
In PCB editor, using SHIFT+SPACE doesn't work for me either. There is a difference if I use CTRL-SPACE. It then seems to rotate the group around the cursor.
Also, the message bar says something about Dynamic Reconnector mode and pressing N to change mode from Dynamic to Hidden.
I notice that undo on the rotate doesn't seem to work. Best to save the design before rotating things more simple than a single part.
I tested this a bit more using 45 deg rotation steps.
I don't know what hitting space bar does but if I do it 8 times then the component group seems to be back full circle. It seems to be rotating and translating but I don't know what the center of rotation is.
Some observations:
Using CTRL+SPACE seems to work fine for me and rotates anti-clockwise.
Using CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE rotates clockwise.
Using SHIFT+SPACE does seem to work now.
When I press SPACE once the parts rotate anti-clockwise and then I have to press SHIFT+SPACE 3 times to rotate clockwise back to the original position.
My conclusion is that using CTRL+SPACE and SHIFT+SPACE seem to work and using SPACE alone either has a bug or does something that is not intuitive to me.
There is another older posting about this in the circuitmaker forum.. It perhaps explains somethings.
https://circuitmaker.com/forum/posts/214678
I've just tested on a simple design and it seems to work using the Tools > Move menu, tried two methods that will both rotate a selection of components with the tracks remaining in place (i.e. not dragged around with the components).
1. Select some components; Tools > Move > Rotate Selection; Enter angle; Left click on centre of rotation. Control-Z will undo.
2. Select some components; Tools > Move > Move Selection; Left click to set centre of rotation; use CNTL+SPACE or SHIFT+SPACE to rotate (angle set in system preferences). Control-Z will undo.
It seems that using SPACE on its own to try and rotate messes up the undo.
Hooray. Looks like this problem is fixed in the new revision 1.4.1. The Undo function works also.