mirroring copied ports

When you say you have created ports, are these standard schematic symbols? If so then you can mirror either during move using X or bring up the properties dialog where you can select Mirrored or the rotation angle (0, 90, 180, 270 degrees).

Erm, ports, as in the standard schematic element available. No the "x" key does not work, what I have discovered is that the "direction" only sets itself in the right direction after a wire is connected, the left/right style make no difference as there seems to be conflicting behaviour, it's like a change was made and the old settings and options have not been removed. Essentially I just want prts to look like the input style does, but if I don't set it as an input or output it just point right.

Sorry Simon, I had assumed you had created a schematic symbol of 6 parts so you could drop each individually onto a schematic sheet to represent the 6 pin header. If using the actual port element there does appear to be an issue with them displaying correctly until wires, but using the left/right settings does change the behaviour and the wires can be attached to either side of the port symbol so I would expect you can make the schematic look how you want once the ports are wired.

Yes having figured it out I can make it work, but the left/right option is redundant if it is following a rule based on "input or output" AND "which side do I have a wire fixed to" you can't implement all 3 settings as there would be a conflict and one setting has to take priority.

The I/O Type property takes precedence, if set to Unspecified then the Style Left/Right applies. Useful as I believe I/O Type will be used with ERC, if not wanting to have an electrical rule check then you can set to Undefined and use the Style property to shape the port.

I will have to have another look but left/right makes no difference

Well I have it working now but frankly this is not fit for purpose, is altium designer this rubbish or did they deliberately make ports useless just for CS?

So if i close my schematic and reopen it forgets that I decided that I wanted my port label heights to be 2mm not 2.54, but then I am just the idiot that wasted money on this, what do I know about how I want to draw my circuit.

The software edits in right hand oriented port and then flips back when you stop editing. this is completely stupid because if I want to stretch a left pointing port to get the text to fit the port turns right during the edit and when the text fits this way round you stop editing at which point the port inverts to what I actually set it at and the text then fall out of the point whereas it didn't when that was the back.....

For one of the most used features of a circuit drawing package this is abysmal. Please tell me this is going to be fixed!

Is there a way of setting port defaults like heights ? assuming I am allowed...

Ports are labeled with the currently default schematic font as set in system preferences. If you check the autosize checkbox of a port it will expand to fit the height and width of the text, you can make larger and it will not shrink down automatically. Agreed though that ports switching style when edited and wires/not wired is not ideal but at least not a deal breaker blocking design work.

Auto size it not ticked as default so it is still a mystery, I have stopped using them and am just using net labels.