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Offline RFRFGFTTopic starter

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How to find components that were flipped on the X or Y axis?
« on: February 15, 2016, 07:42:42 pm »
I'm debugging a board that was laid out by an inexperienced person and they made some very rookie mistakes.  Most notably, some components were flipped on the X/Y axis causing the pinouts to be mirrored.  Is there an easy way to find all components that were manipulated this way?   Is there a way to disable it in Altium?
 

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Re: How to find components that were flipped on the X or Y axis?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2016, 03:21:09 am »
Mirrored on the SCH or PCB..?

In either case, check the SCH/PCB List Panel.  Select a type (Component/Part, I suppose) and sort by orientation. :)

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Re: How to find components that were flipped on the X or Y axis?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2016, 05:34:15 pm »
Mirrored on the PCB unfortunately.  Results in pin 1 being the top right pin instead of the top left.  I've found two components so far. 
 

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Re: How to find components that were flipped on the X or Y axis?
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2016, 02:40:19 pm »
I can't find any distinguishing information in the pcb list panel regarding the components being flipped.
 

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Re: How to find components that were flipped on the X or Y axis?
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2016, 03:31:23 pm »
Hmm, no, it doesn't.  Maybe there's something related, for example, have the Designators all been cleaned up and placed right-ways-up or are they flipped?  Try turning on the Comments, see if they are mirrored?

Example: if I flip this part, the designator and comment become mirrored. If I fix the designator, everything looks fine, but the pads are still swapped.  But if I select the component, select the Comment (in the Inspector Panel), and optionally un-hide it, I see it is still mirrored.

You can use the Filter Panel with:
IsComment AND Mirror
to select the comments, then select the components/owners by following the link in Inspector.  You'll have to place everything again, because I don't think there's a way to flip them in place, other than dragging each and pressing X.  But all the routing is wrong anyway, so you were probably expecting that.  (You can save placement by copying the X/Y positions in PCB List, doing the flip, going to edit mode, and pasting them back in.)

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