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rotate_footprint

Set a footprint's rotation.

Usage

rotate_footprint <ref> <angle_deg>

Angle brackets mark required arguments and square brackets optional ones. Available in the pcb editor. You can issue this yourself, and the AI agent issues the identical command — there is no second, hidden interface.

Arguments

ref
Required
angle_deg
Required

2 required, 0 optional.

Behaviour

Absolute, not relative — the argument replaces the current angle.

How the agent uses it

  • The agent works in a perceive / act / verify / recover loop: it describes the design, issues rotate_footprint or another command, checks the result, and undoes the change if the check fails.
  • Commands report what they actually did. A refusal is a result, not a silent no-op — which is what lets the agent recover instead of building on a change that never happened.
  • Anything the agent can do here, you can do yourself, and the reverse.

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