Are you doing the following:?
Click on the âRoute Tracksâ tool.
Click on the start pad, and release.
A track should be drawn on whatever metal layer you are on.
Click to place a vertex in the track.
When you want to switch layers, hit the âvâ key. Click to place the via and switch layers.
The hotkeys are grouped by application. If you scroll up, you will see that itâs under the group for 3D viewer.
Thank you 3Dogs. That was it. I needed to click and release. Appreciate the help very much.
Casey
Aha, you were drawing a selection rectangle because you didnât release.
The hotkey for a stand alone Via is âCtrl + Shift + Vâ. All three keys need to be pressed simultaneously. When in track drawing mode, only âVâ is required.
The Yellow line with the blue centre is the box (rectangle) selection. At any time press and hold down the LMB and move the mouse in any direction to form a rectangle. Release the LMB and everything in that rectangle is selected and can be moved together.
Note: Left to right forming a rectangle gives a different result to right to left. Left to right selects items completely inside the rectangle. Right to left is items both completely inside and partially outside rectangle.
Thatâs if making a standalone via, e.g. to join top and bottom copper. While drawing a track, just V suffices. See the context menu in track drawing mode.
Yes, I should have mentioned that. Better fix it.
Happy Straylya day. May your emus not kick down your dunny door. 
Ahhhh happy holiday. I confess I did not know about that one.
But what if you depress CTRL+ALT+Shift+delete+M+7+@+F3+backspace+?+>+Pageup simultaneously?
Sorry I took so long to reply. Too many keys to press with just my fingers, and the cat is outside. I had to place the keyboard on the floor and use toes as well.
Result: computer says no!
For making connections between Top and Bottom Copper pours I select an existing via of the NET I want to connect like GND and then use the duplicate function Ctrl-D.
This saves one finger 
When doing massive stitching, multiple VIAs can be selected and duplicate will give you many VIAs fast.
SeriouslyâŚYup me too.
I was testing to see how many fingers you have! 
Never use the 3D viewer ? how much of this software do you use 
OK. I gather that your question is not completely serious, but:
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Ease of manual assembly is very important to me. For that reason I mostly use my own footprints. I have posted examples on the forum previously. Using wide pads in the corners of an MSOP are a good example.
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I assume that my custom footprints would need to be associated somehow with 3D models. That sounds like added work, and I see no benefit other than âpretty pictures.â It does not help me to produce a working board which is what I care about. It would be even more work if I wanted the 3D to show fidelity with the custom footprint. I would need to create or edit the 3D models themselves. Not interested.
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The 3D capability seems to approximately triple the size of the KiCad installation so as to make it occupy several GB. (Gigabytes or maybe Great Britain?)
I do not see much practical use for the result other than maybe sales and marketing which I am not doing.
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No worries !! have a great year I guess I am being a little flippant, but always nice to hear other peopleâs point of view 
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Hi @mousey
I have much the same philosophy as @BobZ . Never bothered with the pretty pictures of 3D. Never downloaded the 3D libraries.
Iâm really only interested in designing schematics and PCBs.
I have abused the Schematic editor on a number of occasions, however. eg. I drew a wiring diagram for my tractor. I also drew a water diagram for our little farm (tanks, water bore, pumps, pipe layout through the paddocks, outlets, etc.)
Gigs are small beer these days unless youâre a band trying to break through. These days data storage is incredibly cheap compared to other running costs. I recently installed 20 TB of HDD storage because the old ones were coming up to 60,000 hours running time.
Holy smokes. Do you have a rack of HDDs? Are you using a laptop or a desktop PC? I feel that laptops probably give the best value these days unless you need all out performance. One big advantage is built-in battery backup. Of course I can also take it with me on a plane (unless the batteries go exothermic. 
) I use the laptop monitor and a 2K external monitor.
This laptop has a 1 TB SSD and its speed spoils me for rotating disks. I do not have to wait long to boot up. My wifeâs laptop is older and under-used. It has a 2 TB HDD and it is very slow. Even when you give it nothing to do, it always seems very busy.
Nah, 1x12 TB SATA, and 2x10 TB SATA in RAID-1. Enterprise grade too, so faster than the previous lot. Those sizes were the top about 5 years ago.
Mmm, better take this (but not my discs) offline.
Iâm pushing 100TBs of data storage here. I have 7 spinning rust drives plus a m.2 ssd drive, for the OS itself. Linux and LVM user here. Oh, got another 16Tb drive on the way. One LVM is pushing 90%.
I also have other drive setups for backing up all that data. o_O