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Is there a fix for rotating components yet?

adamwebber

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.

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    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.

  • 0 in reply to adamwebber

    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.

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  • 0 in reply to adamwebber

    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.

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  • 0 in reply to tarribred61

    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.

  • 0 in reply to tarribred61

    There is another older posting about this in the circuitmaker forum..  It perhaps explains somethings. 

     

    https://circuitmaker.com/forum/posts/214678

     

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