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> Or are we used to "perpendicular" layouts simply because assembly machines weren't able to rotate components like that?

I used a small pick and place machine 15 years ago (Europlacer something or other). It was able to place components at any angle. You'd have an X,Y package centre, and then a theta rotation angle.

Programming it would not have been fun, but the placing is controlled by the programming and machine vision and fiducial markings.




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