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

jelbert

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.

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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.

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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!

    --

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

     

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    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.

     

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    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.

     

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    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.

     

  • 0 in reply to rachaelp

    rachaelp wrote on Wed, 08 February 2017 08:56

    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

     

     

    Oh, and the little nugget of information that the OP was using a Mac didn't

    come until the last post.... It's always a good idea to give the OS version

    as well as the EAGLE version when trying to get help....

    --

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

     

  • 0 in reply to rachaelp

    rachaelp wrote on Wed, 08 February 2017 08:56

    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

     

     

    Oh, and the little nugget of information that the OP was using a Mac didn't

    come until the last post.... It's always a good idea to give the OS version

    as well as the EAGLE version when trying to get help....

    --

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

     

  • 0 in reply to rachaelp

    rachaelp wrote on Wed, 08 February 2017 08:56

    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

     

     

    Oh, and the little nugget of information that the OP was using a Mac didn't

    come until the last post.... It's always a good idea to give the OS version

    as well as the EAGLE version when trying to get help....

    --

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