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Automation tools for KiCAD
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Reference names rotate when creating a panel #679

Closed Pieter-Dirk05 closed 3 months ago

Pieter-Dirk05 commented 3 months ago

Prerequisites

KiKit version

1.5.0

KiCAD version

8.0.1

Operating system

Windows 11

Description

I\m trying to create a panel of 3 PCB's using the KiKit plugin. I've done this before successfully (in KiCad V7). After working with the panelizer for a little while I noticed that some off the reference names have rotated. At first I suspected that this could have been caused by me rotating the PCB's 90deg using the Layout->rotation option. But after setting this to 0 and trying again, the problem was still there with the same footprints. I have keep upright enabled for all my footprints references. after panelizing image image before panelizing image image

And these are just a few examples of rotated reference names.

Steps to Reproduce

I will send you the PCB through email. This is the panelizing preset I've used. Panelizing preset.json

Pieter-Dirk05 commented 3 months ago

After finding out KiKit 1.5.1 was released and seeing my problem mentioned in the release notes I updated and this has solved the problem.