Anyangle Route in kicad

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Hey developer, Please develop any angle route in kicad

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Is there a specific reason you need this?
(I’m just curious)

Also about wishes and bug reports:

  • Most forum members are mere KiCAD users who try to help each other with the software. (Most developers do not regularly visit this forum.)
  • Wishes for features need to be posted on the bugtracker with ‘wishlist’ as tag
  • Pure wishes, without support by a Dev or a patch ready to go into the KiCAD code have a very small chance of ever being implemented. (You need to give them more than please develop feature x. Present a use-case that showcases why this feature is essential.)
    Sorry & good luck.

The side to report bugs/wishes can be found under:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad
(In case you want to post there, search for 15 minutes if anyone else has already posted a similar wish. If so: mark it with “this bug affects me too” instead of creating a duplicate bug.)

Here also the link to the official how to page for reporting “bugs”: https://kicad.org/help/report-a-bug/

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I think that you need to get more practice with the existing program. There are good reasons why CAD abandoned the random track angles seen on a manually drawn PCB

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The any angle option already exists in KiCad, though I always use 45 degrees.

Just uncheck “Limit tracks to 45 degrees” under preferences->General

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Abandoned? Okay, let’s pretend that’s the case, name the reasons?

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While as @pedro says, random angles are still possible in KiCad, for special cases like RF striplines and tracing old boards, general purpose CAD sticks to 45 degrees. This makes autorouting easier, DRC faster and just looks better

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Basically, it was easier for programmers writing software for old (slow) computers, there is not really any good reason now.

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