Annoying via behaviour, tracks get automatically moved

[bask185]

I am making a screw terminal split PCB and I am trying to connect some of the red traces to the blue ones. This is what happens…

I have made these things before in older KiCad version. I haven’t seen this ‘bug’ (I realize it is propably a feture) before.

I suppose there is a setting I can turn off?

Kind regards,

Bas

Application: KiCad x64 on x64

Version: 8.0.2, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.4
	FreeType 2.12.1
	HarfBuzz 8.3.0
	FontConfig 2.14.2
	libcurl/8.5.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit editie, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
	Date: Apr 27 2024 23:05:17
	wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers)
	Boost: 1.83.0
	OCC: 7.7.1
	Curl: 8.5.0-DEV
	ngspice: 42
	Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings:

[paulvdh]

First: You should not be using KiCad V8.0.2 at this time. Current is V8.0.4, and you should at least update to that. With each bump in the third digit (approximately once a month) over 60 or more bugs get fixed, and you would not want to let all that work of the KiCad developers to waste, or would you?

What function do you use o place those via’s? They can be placed as part of a track, or they can be free standing via’s (from the menu bar on the right). I just drew something similar (with the free via’s) and did not have a problem. I only had do hold the [Shift] key to prevent the via’s from snapping to the center of the tracks.

And I checked, and there is no interruption in the tracks at all, just a single blue and a single red track.

[bask185]

I used free via’s. Holding the shift keyworks partially

This I can fix afterwards

Edit holding shift key mostly solves it. But it seems not always. If ‘it’ happens, I can do Ctrl Z and redo the via. It seems to happen sometimes with the shift down.

Bas

[paulvdh]

Another partial solution is to lock those tracks in place. The settings of the interactive router may also have some sort of influence. My current setting are:

I’ve been trying some more with several different settings of the interactive router, but for me it just works. No movement of tracks at all. Maybe it’s one of the bugs fixed in the last two bug fix updates.