PCB auto-finish track

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I think I read somewhere before that it’s possible to “auto-finish” a started track in Kicad, but can’t find a shortcut or a menu for it now. Is it possible?

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Time to Ctrl-F “finish” in the manual: 20 seconds (including page load)

Time to type a low-effort question: 2 minutes

Wasted time of everyone who reads something that a self-respecting engineer should feel ashamed to ask: priceless

For everything else, there’s Mastercard

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It’s in the manual . . .

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And to head off the obvious follow-up gripe: correct, it does seem not to work from the context menu, that’s a bug (that I literally only noticed myself this morning having only ever used the F key): Pcbnew: 'Attempt Finish' doesn't work first time from the context menu (#19560) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

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Ah thanks, what a great function :slight_smile: … Edit: though the SHIFT+F doesn’t seem to work, or if I don’t understand what SHIFT+F should do…

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And it would probably be fantastic if also, why not as an option, to make it auto add a via and continue where it jumps on tough obstacles, then we finally would have a real, new follow-me router :slight_smile:

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Wouldn’t that be a flee-from-me router, not follow-me?

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Haha, that’s also a good name, but no, it will for sure then really follow you – all the way!

The “flee-from-me router” is actually the topic in this thread: V9-rc1 / latest v8.99 rerouting a "bad" routed track - #30 by TheSwede

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Solved? Pls mark for others searching the forum for solutions. Thx :slightly_smiling_face:

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Never used it but I think Shift + F will try to route a bus type arrangement where you have already selected a number of pads . . .

See if this helps: KiCad 7, Attempt to Finish Selection (Shift+F)

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And here:

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Ok thanks, interesting, SHIFT+F seems to do at least something in Kicad 8x, but does nothing in 9-rc1/8.99 here. Maybe it will now get developed into perfection, or got forgotten :slight_smile:

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works for me in v9 :person_shrugging:

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Ok then I must have messed it up somehow with my special key commands, once again :slight_smile: Has anyone used it to get good use of it, and made a demo (video)?

Edit: I removed my personal user.hotkeys file and now SHIFT+F works in v9 as well. Thanks for the tip gkeeth.

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Tried both the F and Shift+F now, both are very interesting, actually very usable to speed things up.

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