Continuing a track at inactive layer

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One problem I always have, is that if I have top layer active, and I want to continue a track on the bottom layer, I have to change layer first.
If I am routing tracks, and click a track, that means I am routing just that track and nothing else. It is too easy to create stray coppers.

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Ok, I started a track on F.Cu, clicked the mouse to fix the end of the track, then typed V to create a via, then clicked the mouse to continue the track on B.Cu, and so on. Is this not what you want?

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No not really. Lets say, there is an end of unfinished track somewhere on lets say bottom layer, and I am on top layer, and routing. If I then click an end of that (bottom layer)track, what else would I want than continue that bottom layer track.
Now it is done so that I first have to change to a correct layer, and then start routing again (X I think). Too, often I create stray copper, too. Which must be cleaned away…

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I have no experience with incomplete tracks but sounds like you should write a feature request on Gitlab.

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I have too many accounts at various services. And I have no idea how it should be done.

Do you always route a track completely at one go. Or how should I say it. I sometimes have to stop in the middle of routing, and do something else.

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I haven’t done enough routing for it to be a significant time sink for me as making PCBs is only a hobby. Put in that feature request, we’re mostly forum readers here and not devs.

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I don’t know why, but for me it behaves just like you describe you want it to behave. I seem to have version 6.0.1 in this machine.

EDIT: I just tried with the latest nightly build. It behaves identically. I have two tracks with loose ends, one on F.Cu and one on B.Cu. No matter which layer is active, when I start routing over an existing loose end, that track is continued and the corresponding layer becomes active if it wasn’t already.

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Strange. I wonder which setting is different. This is a Windows 10/64 and KiCad 6.0.7

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