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

Question

While routing a board, the unrouted (wire unrouted) connections are shown with thin lines.

In the beginning of the board these lines are logical and it helps routing the board. But I can only start a new trace at the point where these thin lines start.

At this example I want to start routing at the end of the GND trace. But the router will not allow me to do that. The workaround is to delete the trace to the point of the unroute and then continue from there. In this case that is not much extra work. But sometimes I have to delete quite a lot until I can continue.

There must be a setting somewhere to disable this 'feature' and let me route from any point I want. But how?

I use Eagle 7.7 Premium.

rachaelp · Accepted Answer

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 -- EAGLE support forums at http://www.eaglecentral.ca :: Where the EAGLE community meets.