I am struggling with the “Delete unconnected track” function under General settings.
I am using the latest stable version and use the Open GL interactive router.
It is supposed to delete the tracks that is “not used” when I refine a track, but very often it is not deleting the left overs.
Sometimes it works.
What is the hidden “rules” that decide when a track will be deleted?
Right now I have to manually delete the stubs too often.
You can also use Edit.Cleanup tracks and vias, but that is a ‘big hammer’ that currently does not work by net, but does the whole design.
Seems to work best on a finished design, as it will happily delete partial routes.
What NET names ?
Playing with this I find auto-removal works best in signal nets, but for GND it was leaving more stubs, that Edit.Cleanup was not removing either.
So I changed the GND Pour Outline net name to no net, and that makes GND like any other NET.
Now, Edit.cleanup will delete any stubs.
Looks like KiCad considers GND stubs as connected to the Pour, which is probably valid, but it does make the nets behave differently.
Yes, the Cleanup function works well sometimes.But as you said , it will sometimes do too much. But anyway it is useful! Would like to have a hotkey to that function. But as far as I can see it is not possible. And I can not make the macro functions work.
Are the macros working at the moment with the interactive router?
I am also missing the function from the old router where you could either delete one segment of a trace(back) or the whole trace(delete). In the interactive router you can only delete on segment at a time using delete.
Or am I missing something?
Under View.OpenGL there is right click -> Select [trivial connection U/copper connection I/whole net]
So if you hover and do U or I, then del, you can select/delete almost the whole trace.
Strange names, and I’m not sure how it decides trivial or copper, but testing these did find some bonus segments in the design.
More useful and predictable would be to
Thank you! Did not know about the U and I option. Great! Covers my need at the moment.
But has the macros any function?