Interactive routing - dragging components?

[jandyman]

I just watched a youtube video on the interactive routing features. It will take a while to absorb, but it looks like an extremely productive approach.

I had one question though. I see you can grab traces and vias, but suppose you want to adjust the position of a component without the traces becoming disconnected. It looks like this is not possible?

[Naib]

its not possible in 5.1.x but it does exist in the 5.99 (the nightly) ready for v6 sometime next year

Drag components in kicad

A few days ago, Thomas Pointhuber post on twitter (https://twitter.com/Chaos_Robotic/status/1233827582946271232) a capture of component dragging feature; this can be a big step forward in minimizing (re)routing time… However, I cannot locate which nightly build include this feature… Does know someone if this will be part of 5.1.6 stable version? It also could be very nice to modify the track size for an already routed (non straight) track at once for entire route between 2 points… Thanks, A…

[jandyman]

Good to know it is coming. Thanks for the reply!