Hi all,
Is it possible to select / change track width in free routing in KiCAD? At present, though I give 1mm track width in PCBNew, when it gets routed in “free routing”, the layout track width becomes very thin and the same gets back to PCBNew. I am in need of 1mm track using free routing.
Please help.
Regards,
Raghu
I believe Design Rules > global design rules > custom track widths gives you a drop down so you can switch when routing. You can also set up net classes in Design Rules net class editor that will do it for the traces you add to that net class. I’m guessing you could name this net class ‘power’? 
Dear Hermit,
I did the same in Design Rules > Global Design Rules and created a new class for 1 mm track width. I can also see the 1 mm track when manually routing in the layout.
However, when I do the “Free Routing”, I am getting it back in thin (0.25 mm I guess) lines. I need 1 mm track width via free routing.
Regards,
Raghu
Oh. Sorry. I was up late last night and just got home from a little ‘emergency’ and didn’t catch you were using an autorouter. Very few people use that so support will be a little sketchy. If it doesn’t obey the net classes I don’t know if you will be able to use it. I think the author has abandoned it. Kicad has some capabilities. In my nightly build the auto router doesn’t seem to do much so I don’t know if that will recognize you classes or not. The symbol by the cursor is the auto router.
Dear Hermit,
Ok thank you for the info. So you advice to go for manual routing rather than autorouter?
Regards,
Raghu
Yes. Your board layout skills will improve greatly because of it.