Unexpected behaviour with Pcbnew manual routing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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Bug Description
Manual routing sometimes gives weird results. I have attached examples below to better explain it, but the idea is that I get weird track shapes when I clearly shouldn't. I would expect the track to follow my mouse movements without me having to add unnecessary points, and without adding those 90 degree angles.
I'm not sure exactly what version introduced this behaviour, but I suspect this has been introduced in 5.1, it wasn't like this before.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Version info:
Application: KiCad
Version: 5.1.4, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh2/1.8.2 nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Linux 5.3.7-arch1-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,
Boost: 1.71.0
OpenCASCADE Technology: 7.4.0
Curl: 7.66.0
Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
USE_
USE_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
tags: | added: pcbnew |
tags: | added: pns |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | Expired → Fix Released |
This was the original forum thread: https:/ /forum. kicad.info/ t/why-did- routing- become- so-annoying/ 19493
As I said there, I would expect KiCad to offer two 45 degree corners instead of 90 + 45 degrees by default when it can choose between those.