Routing board manually, trace will only start at inrouted point.

Hi, I usually do the same and delete a part of the net and start routing again there but when it cames to gnd, normally I use the polygon tool to do a gnd plane to save me time instead of trace all the grounds. Also its quicker to etching the pcb and keep your circuit more immune to interference.

But it can not be true that this is the only way to route a trace! I used other routing software ,Mentor Graphics Pads, and never had this kind of problem. There you had the same lines. But when clicking on a net the line would jump to that place on the net and routing would start from that point.

Eagle has the great advantage of the ULP language and the use of eagle in the Open Source community.

Am 07.02.2017 um 16:53 schrieb Jelbert Holtrop:

But it can not be true that this is the only way to route a trace! I used other routing software ,Mentor Graphics Pads, and never had this kind of problem. There you had the same lines. But when clicking on a net the line would jump to that place on the net and routing would start from that point.

Eagle has the great advantage of the ULP language and the use of eagle in the Open Source community.

 

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Ctrl+Left starts routing at any given point along a wire or via.

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Am 07.02.2017 um 16:53 schrieb Jelbert Holtrop:

But it can not be true that this is the only way to route a trace! I used other routing software ,Mentor Graphics Pads, and never had this kind of problem. There you had the same lines. But when clicking on a net the line would jump to that place on the net and routing would start from that point.

Eagle has the great advantage of the ULP language and the use of eagle in the Open Source community.

 

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HELP ROUIE -

Ctrl+Left starts routing at any given point along a wire or via.

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Friedrich

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Jelbert Holtrop wrote on Tue, 07 February 2017 10:07

But I can only start a new trace at the point where these thin lines

start.

This is simply not true, as reading the help for ROUTE would have revealed.

If you hold down CTRL when left clicking on a location to start routing,

it starts from there, not the nearest airwire end.

Again, this is all described in the help right where you'd expect to find

it.  Some times it can be difficult to find things in the Eagle help when

you don't know enough to know what to ask, but in this case it is very

clearly documented.  In fact it's the first option show for the ROUTE

command.  READ THE MANUAL already!

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Jelbert Holtrop wrote on Tue, 07 February 2017 10:07

But I can only start a new trace at the point where these thin lines

start.

This is simply not true, as reading the help for ROUTE would have revealed.

If you hold down CTRL when left clicking on a location to start routing,

it starts from there, not the nearest airwire end.

Again, this is all described in the help right where you'd expect to find

it.  Some times it can be difficult to find things in the Eagle help when

you don't know enough to know what to ask, but in this case it is very

clearly documented.  In fact it's the first option show for the ROUTE

command.  READ THE MANUAL already!

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Jelbert Holtrop wrote on Tue, 07 February 2017 10:07

But I can only start a new trace at the point where these thin lines

start.

This is simply not true, as reading the help for ROUTE would have revealed.

If you hold down CTRL when left clicking on a location to start routing,

it starts from there, not the nearest airwire end.

Again, this is all described in the help right where you'd expect to find

it.  Some times it can be difficult to find things in the Eagle help when

you don't know enough to know what to ask, but in this case it is very

clearly documented.  In fact it's the first option show for the ROUTE

command.  READ THE MANUAL already!

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Yes I did and when I do that I get a menu:

This software is probably not made for use on a mac with ony a toutch pad. I am planning to get a wired mouse somewhere to test if it works properly with that.

For this picture I deleted a peice of trace on my completed board and tried to route from where the menu touches the trace.

Jelbert Holtrop wrote:

 

This software is probably not made for use on a mac with ony a toutch pad. I am planning to get a wired mouse somewhere to test if it works properly with that.

For this picture I deleted a peice of trace on my completed board and tried to route from where the menu touches the trace.

In this case it's not actually an issue with the touchpad, it's a case of the help file not covering the Mac version explicitly at every point in the manual. However in the "Keyboard and Mouse" section of the help it states that on a Mac you use Cmd instead of Ctrl. I use EAGLE on a Mac and this does work fine. The only thing that was problematic on a Mac was changing layer in v7 and earlier as it doesn't support the middle button. This issue has been resolved in v8 with the addition of being able to use Space to change layer.

Best Regards,

Rachael

Olin wrote on Tue, 07 February 2017 22:03

Jelbert Holtrop wrote on Tue, 07 February 2017 10:07

But I can only start a new trace at the point where these thin

lines start.

 

This is simply not true, as reading the help for ROUTE would have

revealed.  If you hold down CTRL when left clicking on a location to

start routing, it starts from there, not the nearest airwire end.

 

Again, this is all described in the help right where you'd expect to

find it.  Some times it can be difficult to find things in the Eagle help

when you don't know enough to know what to ask, but in this case it is

very clearly documented.  In fact it's the first option show for the

ROUTE command.  READ THE MANUAL already!

To be fair, on the Mac the help is not correct when you go directly to the

HELP ROUTE page as it's Cmd+Left Click on macOS. However, it's a fairly

fundamental thing that the Mac version uses Cmd rather than Ctrl and it is

given as a global difference early on in the help in the Keyboard and Mouse

section so I am surprised this was the first thing that didn't work

correctly.

Best Regards,

Rachael

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