On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Windell H. Oskay <wind...@oskay.net> wrote: > I'm having an issue exporting my board from PCB as a gerber. > > Please take a look at this screenshot: http://flickr.com/gp/oskay/L98vvn > > The pads look normal-- square to the page --in PCB, but are rotated strangely > when I export as gerber. > > The footprint, as it appears in my PCB document is: > > Element["" "gullwing_opto" "IRD201" "unknown" 325000 262500 -7000 -17500 0 > 100 ""] > ( > Pad[-6703 -1 -6700 1 4000 2000 5000 "" "1" "square"] > Pad[6700 1 6703 -1 4000 2000 5000 "" "2" "square"] > ElementLine [-3000 -8900 -3000 -6900 700] > ElementLine [-3000 8900 -3000 6900 700] > ElementLine [6700 -7900 6700 -4400 700] > ElementLine [6700 7900 6700 4400 700] > ElementLine [-6700 -7900 -6700 -4400 700] > ElementLine [-6700 7900 -6700 4400 700] > ElementLine [-6700 -7900 6700 -7900 700] > ElementLine [-6700 7900 6700 7900 700] > ElementArc [-3000 0 4000 4000 45 270 700] > > ) > > Is this a known bug? Any workaround? >
Are the pads exactly square? (sorry about my laziness to do the math). Try making them slightly rectangular. That worked for me for going the other way: I found it impossible to rotate a perfectly square pad 45 degrees. Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markra...@midwesttelecine.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user