Electronics components silk screen help!!!

[Lawmann10]

Hi all, I am having some trouble with my pcb design, specifically when i try to reposition / reorient the names of any components on the silkscreen. I need all the parts on the edges to have their names oriented to i can read them from the outside. I can not for the life of me get the parts on the left or top to have their names oriented the right way. They only rotate 0 or 90 degrees, not 180 or 270. am i doing something wrong or is this a bug. Thanks and any help is appreciated! 

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @Lawmann10,

I hope you're doing well. So for the text that you can't get to orient correctly, go ahead and form a selection of those texts and then in the Inspector go ahead and set the Spin flag. The Spin flag being set will allow the text to be rotated correctly.

Let me know if you run into any problems with this.

Best Regards,

[Lawmann10]

Hi @jorge_garcia Thanks for the reply and sorry i have been away. I had tried setting the spin aswell as the mirror, and they both seem to do nothing. Im a bit lost

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @Lawmann10,

I hope you're doing well. Would you be willing to post a screen shot of the issue? The Spin setting is very subtle and will only have an effect in 2 out of 4 rotations. 

With an image I can figure out if there's a better way to proceed.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

[Lawmann10]

Hi @jorge_garcia here are the sceenshots of my trying to rorate the names. It seems to only move the tect back not allow me to properly spin it. Thanks

[jorge_garcia]

Hello @Lawmann10,

I hope you're doing well. Which way do you want the text to end up? When you set the spin flag may have to rotate the text to a different rotation to get the result you want.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

[Lawmann10]

Hello @jorge_garcia,

i am trying to have the text rotate so that it can be viewed from the left hand side of the PCB. I have tried many orientations but it will only even let me rotate it to be viewed from the right, or the bottom. regardless of weather I put in 90 or 270 degrees.

I have been trying to work around it by using the other tect feature but I cant seem to see a way where i cna hide all the component names from the silkscreen layer without going in and deleting them individually...

Thanks so much, Lawson

[kterryTYYYC · Accepted solution]

I had the same exact issue a while back. It is completely un-intuitive. See my post here...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-electronics/rotate-designators-on-board-180-degrees/m-p/120510...

[jorge_garcia · Accepted solution]

Hi @Lawmann10,

I hope you're doing well. Try this.

1. Set the SPIN flag for the text 

2. Click on the MOVE command
3. Select the text and make sure it's floating on your mouse cursor.

4. Now Right click to rotate the text, don't look at the angles. Just look at the text.

By playing with the spin flag and doing these rotations. you'll find you can get the text you want.

Best Regards,