Place components rotated 45 degree angle

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I’m trying to place a component at a 45 degree angle offset from the grid
The PCB enclosure box is an irregular octagon and I’d like to take advantage and set the 3-pin header at a 45 degree angle

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Using Properties > Rotation and entering a custom angle doesn’t seem to work. How can I adjust this component to be off grid and at an angle?

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Hi,

How is it not working? How did you use it and what happens exactly?

Actually this is exactly the way to place devices with arbitrary rotations. I quickly tried it in LibrePCB 0.1.7 and it worked fine (as expected).

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Thank you for confirming.

Here’s a GIF showing the approach I’ve taken, trying to right-click on the part does nothing

However, I can now do this by highlighting the part and then going to Edit > Properties and typing in the rotation box on the upper right:

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So maybe my actual issue is that Right Clicking on the part appeared to do nothing, and I had to go the Edit toolbar at the top of the window > Properties in order to get the properties dialog to show up for this component

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Ah I see. Then it is indeed a problem with the context menu. Maybe it is the same bug as Board editor: Right-click on selected device changes tool · Issue #1060 · LibrePCB/LibrePCB · GitHub. Sooner or later we will fix that :slight_smile: Actually there must always be a context menu for devices.