Add Track (5.99)

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I have just down loaded the latest nightly build and in PCB Editor pressing ‘x’ adds a track. When I press ‘w’ to increase the size of the track it does not increase despite the track size drop down menu value increasing. Pressing escape and then x again creates a track of the size in the drop down menu. The same happens for ‘shift x’
Is this a bug?

Application: KiCad PCB Editor (64-bit)

Version: (5.99.0-11393-ga06b95bb1f), release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.74.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19041), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Jul 10 2021 09:00:17
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,STL containers)
Boost: 1.75.0
OCC: 7.5.0
Curl: 7.74.0-DEV
ngspice: 34
Compiler: Visual C++ 1928 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

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Do you have the option “Use Starting Track Width” set?
It’s located next to the track width dropdown: image and in the router right-click menu:
image

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I do have that icon clicked, but don’t seem to have that menu item.

In the current version (5.1.10) you can still use the ‘w’ key combination to change track size even with it selected. I’m sure in the previous 5.99 nightly this worked as well.

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The menu item appears only when the route tool is active.

Yes, you can change the values in the dropdown, but the use starting width option overrides that.

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@636Steve, I think this is it: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/8588, please upvote that issue, maybe it will get implemented for v6. Not having control of trackwidth all the time makes me use bad language when routing :smiley:

Also: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6984, https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/8766

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Could it be that you haven’t set a list of default track widths?
Usually I set them on the preferences and using ‘w’ or ‘W’ I can select the width for the track.

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Not sure how I do this.

Yes I have 6 different sizes in the list. When you press ‘w’ the dropdown list scrolls through the sizes but the track size stays the same.

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Not sure if that is a bug or the intended behaviour.
Can you try setting the track width before starting to place the track?

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