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cicero Posted - 11 Jul 2016 : 13:28:25
Seriously, how do you reroute a track without wanting to kill yourself?

I must be doing it wrong because the reroute system is so bad that I end up deleting the entire track and redoing it.

Also deleting the track disconnects the pad from the net which is utterly idiotic in my opinion.
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AndyB Posted - 05 Oct 2016 : 16:35:55
Glad I browsed and found this.

Has been a problem for ages. :)
cicero Posted - 11 Jul 2016 : 17:01:28
Thanks all. Things are a little more bearable at last.

For now, I am back and committed to the land of the living.
nigle Posted - 11 Jul 2016 : 16:59:32
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Originally posted by cicero

deleting the track disconnects the pad from the net which is utterly idiotic in my opinion.

Go into Preferences, and on the PCB Interaction tab there is a Delete section. At the bottom of this is a 'Delete Track Does Unroute' checkbox. It is more than a little daft that this isn't the default, probably because in the bad old days we didn't even have this option. Whoever it was on the dev team that thought deleting conectivity information was the right way of doing things is an idiot!
edrees Posted - 11 Jul 2016 : 15:03:21
"Esc", then click (select) on stub you wish to remove, then "Backspace" to delete the 45' segment you don't want, then click on the "elastic band" instead.
cicero Posted - 11 Jul 2016 : 14:34:59
Thanks, F and I are super handy.

How do I stop this kind of thing after double clicking the end of a track to try route the rest of it?

http://i.imgur.com/daEweZJ.png?1
Kriss Posted - 11 Jul 2016 : 14:01:16
Also shortcuts: F and I are helpful
Tick option "Delete Track Does Unroute" in preferences
edrees Posted - 11 Jul 2016 : 13:41:59
You can select a segment of track and delete just the segment with "Backspace" key. I use this feature a lot.

Also,-
Preferences=>PCB Interaction
Delete section ,- untick "Delete Track Does Unroute"
Kriss Posted - 11 Jul 2016 : 13:41:55
There are some options in preferences... don't remember which one at the moment, but i had similar problems.