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Pads are rotated 90° compared to .dra file

SOT23

Hello !

I am facing a very strange problem : some footprints have their pads rotated 90° compared to what I did in the dra file :

This is supposed to be a 1210 chip capacitor

I have had this problem in two different occasions : 

- While quickplacing components on a new design, the pads where rotated 90°.

- While refreshing pads on a design that was already routed. I had to modify a padstack and refreshed all the pads. Big mistake... Now I have all my 1210 capacitor pads rotated.

Why is this happening ? This is very weird and very unwanted... Does anyone have a solution ?

I am using OrCAD Pro, 17.4 S029

Thanks

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  • Schulz Jordan
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    This may be issue how you defined the pads. Make sure for length you have given length, not width value & vice-verse. One of the design I previously worked was assigned with wrong values & it seemed pads rotated but that wasn't the case.

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  • Schulz Jordan
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    This may be issue how you defined the pads. Make sure for length you have given length, not width value & vice-verse. One of the design I previously worked was assigned with wrong values & it seemed pads rotated but that wasn't the case.

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  • SOT23
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    Sorry for the late reply, got caught up by work and kinda forgot about this post !

    Do you mean that if I want, let's say, a 1mmx2mm pad, I can't use a 2mmx1mm pad ? 

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