Homebrew PCBs

James wrote:
> Something I
> ran into recently is that I wanted to rotate some components
> arbitrarily, but I've not found a way to do this in any of the
> software I've tried, they all seem to insist on rotating by
> increments of 90 degrees.

EAGLE can do this.

1. Place a component on the PCB
2. Click the "i" (Properties) toolbar button and then click the component.
3. Enter your desired angle of rotation in the "Angle" box.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!

:-)

I've done 45-degree rotated components with E5, which can make routing 
RAM wiring, etc. a bit easier, especially if the RAM bus is coming off 
of two sides of the chip. Essentially you have one of the corners of the 
source chip "pointing" at the centre of the short side of the RAM chip, 
which is rotated 0-degrees (vertical on the board).

Very handy, though I've heard it adds a fair bit onto the cost of 
assembling a board.

-- 
Phil.
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http://www.philpem.me.uk/