Hi everyone,
I’m new here and returning to KiCad after about 8 years. I’m currently facing an issue with the Interactive Router settings.
When I draw a new track, the router behaves as expected according to my settings. However, when I try to drag an existing track using the G key, the router seems to ignore those settings and only works in highlight mode.
Is this a bug, or am I missing something in the configuration?
Thanks in advance for any help!
You still have V4 working, or you have installed any new version 
Knowing which one would probably help.
For example I have V 8.0.9 installed so if you are using it I can check if I see the same.
Sorry,
I should have mentioned that I installed the latest version (9.0.2).
In my opinion (based only on forum reading) in V9.0.2 if you expect something being a bug than it probably is.
I have recently found at forum some information making me to plan to move to V9 when I will be having relatively lot time for conversion, because it looks that I will have to modify all my footprints (I have defined them with V4).
That’s unfortunate — I probably also have some old projects (V4) archived somewhere, but they’re most likely dead by now anyway.
In any case, thanks for the info.
Importing a KiCad V4 project is no problem, provided the project is complete. For those old projects, Either the .cache and .rescue libraries must be available, or the original symbol libraries must be available. Without that data, it takes more work, but still not a big issue if you know what you’re doing. Piotr is very conservative in his use of KiCad, and also a bit peculiar (with non standard use of layers and such). If you have any problem with modernizing a KiCad V4 project, just open a separate issue with that and we’ll guide you through it.
For the drag issue in V9… I’m still on V8 myself, but with any new mayor release quite a lot minor but sometimes still annoying bugs are introduced, and they also get resolved, but that takes a few months. If you want to avoid that, it’s perfectly fine if you stay on KiCad V8.0.9 for a while. Updating of all V6 and newer projects to the latest version is pretty much a non issue. There is no import procedure at all, you just open the project in the newer version. The only limit is that KiCad does not have any future compatibility. Once a project is saved in V9 format, you can’t open it anymore in V8.
Except one test project I had no V4 projects.
It was V4.0.7 times. I have read that V5 will solve V4 via-stitching problem so I decided to wait for V5 with moving from Protel 3 to KiCad (in Protel 3 I had the same via-stitching problem than in KiCad V4).
Waiting time I spend on designing my symbols and footprints libraries to be able to start as soon as V5 will be released.
Based on KiCad layer use I decided how my footprints should look like to help me make documentation files as I want.
I had no problems with library conversion V4->V5->V6->V7->V8. All they were done by just opening and closing old library.
Now it looks that because in V9 check-boxes to plot/not_plot references and values when plotting disappeared I will have to modify all my 300 footprints and I will probably be doing it manually.
See:
Consider using V8.0.9 for some time.
The described behavior exists in every KiCad version I used so far. Not sure if I’d consider this a bug at this point
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Piotr and I (very likely) made the suggestion to stay with V8.0.9 for a while independently. It’s quite common for people who prefer stability above new features to stay one mayor KiCad version behind. The improvement from your old V4 to V8 will be HUGE, while the changes between V8 and V9 are much more gradual.
Duh, silly me. Yes, you’re right. For OP: Try dragging with the d key instead of with the g key. It has a different behavior, and it does shove other tracks.
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Right (I have just checked )
I’m not using KiCad since half year so am not ‘on time’.
The “to drag an existing track” make me assuming that a question is about dragging a track. May be in V4 G was dragging a track. Now D is doing it (G is for moving a track corner).
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From:
I understand that because of disappearing ref/value check-boxes in plot like I have to modify my libraries also all KiCad libraries will be modified. In my opinion it can make some issues for any project using pre-V9 libraries.
By the way. The thread I have linked has 27 posts in total. The one I link is 4 from end (27-26-25-24) but I have to insert in link the number 25 to be shown the post I want.
I have noticed it about a week ago.
Do you know what is going on?
The third post from that thread is missing. Probably deleted for one reason or another. It could have been spam / off topic / offensive, or maybe the poster made a mistake and deleted it himself. Numbering of other posts has to be preserved, or else direct links to them will break. You can always get a direct link to a post by clicking on the grey “past time” timer in the upper right corner of each post.
Ok.
If the total post number would also be preserved I would not have a doubts, but for short threads it could be surprised to see that thread has 3 posts while you see 2
As others have noted, this is intentional behavior. Note the difference between D (45 degree drag, which uses shove mode if enabled) and G (free angle drag, which always uses highlight collisions mode).
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