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sot343 footprint is lopsided — the right pads sit too close to the center #667

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I was looking through the SOT footprints and sot343 seems to be the odd one out — its pads aren't symmetric.

If you generate it and check the pad X positions:

sot343:  [-1.056, -1.056, 0.55, 0.55]   center = -0.253   columns ~1.6mm apart
sot323:  [-0.891, -0.891, 0.891]        center =  0        (symmetric)
sot363:  [-0.84, -0.84, -0.84, 0.84, …] center =  0        (symmetric)

The left column is at -1.056 but the right column only reaches +0.55, so the whole part is shifted off its origin and the two rows of pads end up ~1.6mm apart instead of ~2.1mm. Every other SOT footprint is symmetric about the center, so this one looks wrong — the land pattern wouldn't match a real SC-70-4 part, and the right-hand leads would miss their pads.

It looks like a small typo in getCcwSot343Coords (src/fn/sot343.ts): pins 1 and 2 use x: -p * 1.92, but pins 3 and 4 just use x: p — the * 1.92 is missing on the right side. The hardcoded courtyard outline just above it is shifted to match those off-center pads too.

I'll open a PR.

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