Via Placement on copper trace

[Ruthless]

I’m trying to stitch vias on this trace thats on both layers.

But KiCAD wont let me exactly where i want. It keeps snapping the via to the middle of the trace. Any
way to stop this?(The trace width is 5.67mm)

[davidsrsb]

You will find it much easier to put the vias where you want by using copper zones instead of wide tracks

[eelik]

I agree about zones.

That said, you can suppress snapping to the track by keeping Shift pressed while you are placing a via. Then it snaps to grid.

[Ruthless]

Thank you. Using Shift works.
Still not very used to working with copper zones/fills. But i will eventually.

[davidsrsb]

It is worth learning, zones can be any polygon shape and no hoops to jump through to have parallel zones on multiple layers.
I do a lot of RF designs and it is much easier to use zones and keepouts to design coplanar waveguides

[paulvdh]

I fully agree with the use of Zones. They’re almost trivially easy to use.

For a more permanent change of the snap behaviour (compared to the shift key) use:
Pcbnew / Preferences / Preferences / Pcbnew / Magnetic Points