PCBNew menus, misc

Hello Everybody, and happy new year!

I noticed that in PCB new, there are menus for trace width and via size at the top left corner.
However, they have a single item, the current setup. What is the purpose of these menus?
There is a star (*) at the right of the menus. What does it mean? Is there a way to have more
items in the menus?
Beside this, the grid menu has too many items is there a way to reconfigure it. And if I could
suppress the mil information that I never use, it would be great.

Now another question. I always set vias to 0.6 (drill = 0.3), and today I noticed that all of them
are bigger. Not big enough to notice at once. Is there a way to change them all at once?
Is there a way to lock the vias / trace to some value? Sometimes it changes automatically
and I would like a bit more control of what I do because I’m afraid I have to resart the routing
from scratch.

Thanks,

Pascal

You need to add trace setups in the DRC setup dialog to get them in there.

Menu “Edit/Edit All Tracks and Vias…”

Hello!
Thanks for your replies! That’s what I call responsive! It works!
I did it. Just for my info: if I have a class called power, all the nets of a device specified as power input or power output will be of that class?
Pascal

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You have to attach nets to net classes, automatically the belong to Default.

Hello!
A last unsolved problem in these menus. What’s the meaning of the star after the unit in mils.
And by the way, is it possible to get rid of all these mil units? I have choosen millimeters and I would expect to have a display in mm only.

Thanks
Pascal

I am assuming you still talk about the trace width and via size selection stuff:

The star denotes the one entry that is the default for the net-class of the trace you are currently laying down.
This part of kicad should use the unit you select in the left toolbar.

There are some small bugs, you have to restart KiCad for the unit change to take full effect. Before that some things are still in the old units. I don’t remember seeing any old units after a restart, that would be more serious bug.

In other words, if the star marked entry is selected the size is automatically changed according to the net class value of the net you are working on. If some other entry is selected, the size stays the same even when you draw new items for another net. Sometimes I change to some non-starred size and forget it when I move to another net, then there will be wrong values.

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Can you please report this behavior? This is not a known bug (that I’m aware of)

Possibly my memory doesn’t serve me well; I just remember seeing such a small problem somewhere. But I can’t find it now.

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