How do you place components in 45 degrees?

[dirk1980]

Hi,
I have a board on which 3 parts are placed in 45 degrees.
And Eagle can't produce reasonable pads for such components.
Now I ask myself the question: How do you place components in 45 degrees?

I find no menu item where I can specify the angle of a component itself.

Regards
Dirk

[Gopher]

I'm sure someone on here can answer the Eagle half....

Mike has written some tools in VB that generate the placement files for the machine from your CAD softwares output (PCad)
Elsewhere on here I'm pretty sure someone else has done much the same thing with a ULP for eagle... EDIT- In fact its a sticky UP Top^^^
Both of these would automatically get you custom rotations...
And lastly if you are using RVGerber to create your placements it does indeed not immediately appear possible, until you locate the thread on here that mentions a 100% not intuitive keypress that suddenly makes that possible.. good luck! EDIT TaDa! http://electricstuff.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=185.msg1007#msg1007

[Mike]

Or just export as un-rotated and apply rotation as a bias in RVPlace ( remember the figures are tenths of a degree, so 450 )

[dirk1980]

I found it, in RV-Gerber you can specify any angle. I hadn't seen that before!

To make things easier, I turned the components back on the board (0 degrees) and then turned them to 45 degrees when placed.

Regards
Dirk