Hi everyone!
There is a long time bug / odd behavior that exists since I began testing 5.99 a year ago - and it still exists in 6.0rc1.
If you change a track width in “Edit Track & Via Properties” in 5.1.12, it will change only the segments, where it does not violate DRC - and give you a warning if it could not change one or several segments because of a DRC violation (normal, expected behavior)
If you do this in 6.0rc1 (actually, I saw this bug way before now in 5.99!), it will modify every segment without regard to the DRC and without error message / notification whatsoever.
To show you the behavior in comparison I created an identic project in 5.1.12 and 6.0rc1 (NB: The /TEST1 Net Trace is divided into several segments, so KiCad can choose to widen some and not others).
Here the behavior in 5.1.12:
2021-12-08_05-49-12
Here, the behavior on the same circuit in 6.0rc1:
2021-12-08_05-51-26
If this behavior is intended or dependent on an option, I have yet to find this setting in the software.
My Kicad 6.0rc1 version:
Application: KiCad PCB Editor (64-bit)
Version: (6.0.0-rc1-249-g84cfa052a1), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.78.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11
Platform: Windows 10 (build 19043), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
Date: Nov 30 2021 00:00:22
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.76.0
OCC: 7.5.0
Curl: 7.78.0-DEV
ngspice: 35
Compiler: Visual C++ 1929 without C++ ABI
Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON
–
Alexander aka @hwreverse