Dear All,
the typical 4-diode-rectifier-circuit is usually drawn in diamond form. Alas, I couldn’t find out how to do this in Windows Kicad Portable / EESchema (Build 2011-07-08 BZR 3044 stable). The rotate function is only able to rotate the whole component.
So my question is: Is there the possibility to draw a component diagonally?
Every hint will be very much appreciated and apologize if I hadn’t found the thread where this question was already answered.
Recently came across the same thing. I just redrew a simple diode diagonally and called it a day.
d_angled.lib (465 Bytes)
d_angled.dcm (48 Bytes)
If you really want to use the diamond shaped bridge then use the one that is already in the library.
device.lib -> diode_bridge
But I prefer to use horizontal diodes, then you have your AC on one side and the DC on the other. It’s also more easily expanded to more than two phases.
thanks a lot for the quick responses - this is what I was looking for.
