Delete segment of trace

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Hi,

I’m having some trouble deleting a small segment that is “inside” a component (in my example on the bottom layer). The only workaround I’ve found so far is to move the component away, but that’s clearly not ideal since it also moves all the connected traces.
It would be nice to have a feature (if it doesn’t already exist) where, for example, right-clicking would show a list of all components, traces, etc. present at the mouse position across all layers, allowing the user to select the desired object and then perform the needed action (in my case, deleting the track).

Gian Carlo

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Hi,
You can press the Shift key while clicking on the object. The selection will cycle through all objects with every click.

Hope this helps

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Hi ubruhin,

I have Version 1.3.1-unstable and It doesn’t seem allways to work. If I click on the PAD with the shift pressed it works but if I click in the drill of the PAD only the component will be selected. Because the piece of trace is only inside the drill it will not be selected.

Gian Carlo

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I just tested with 1.3.0 and it worked, though sometimes it needs more clicks than expected. In my case:

  1. Press and hold SHIFT
  2. Left mouse click: Pad gets selected
  3. Left mouse click: Pads gets deselected, but trace still not selected
  4. Left mouse click: Still nothing selected
  5. Left mouse click: Now the trace gets selected
  6. Release SHIFT

Of course the 0..2 intermediate clicks should not be required, I hope we can fix that some day.

EDIT: It can be that some objects were selected which are not visible (e.g. hidden layer), which explains that sometimes several clicks are needed.