First off Thank you KiCad team for an excellent product.
I have a 2 layer PCB, I wan tot select an area of the PCB that I have already routed, and drag it and its contents “over a few inches” on the board. I totally understand that dragging these components will result in the traces “feeding” the area to cross, but that’s OK, I will clean that up later…
I am trying to use the D key for dragging, but it will only seem to drag one of the traces in the area I have selected. What am I missing?
You cannot drag multiple footprint with attached traces yet. The drag footprint feature only works with a single footprint at a time, it was initially designed for “nudging” a single footprint around slightly, not for moving an entire section of a board with attached traces. For that you will need to use the M key and then delete/reroute the affected traces that leave the selected area.
I cant drag more than one trace. If I drag a selection box around a bunch of stuff nether the D or G key do anything – My guess is that I have something set wrong or I am doing something else dumb…
You hit H because @stefan_test suggested it, but this key turns on single-layer view mode, which prevents selecting items off the active layer. Hit H a few more times until all the layers are full-color and try.