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Kruse Posted - 28 May 2010 : 10:50:42
When i have a reasonable routed track, but I need to make a "jumper" in the middle of the track, since some thing i supposed to cross this track.

Then I expected it should be as easy as dropping 2 vias on the track, clicking on the track portion in between and chose a different layer.
But NO EasyPC 13 does not understand what is going on.

have I misunderstod something (again) ?

Hopefully I have not missed a tick in some properties ...
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Peter Johnson Posted - 01 Jun 2010 : 09:13:00
If you find you get into a mess, you can remove the vias by moving the track back to the original layer. If you just change the layer of only one segment with a via at the end, the via will move to the other end.

If you still have a problem, highlight the problem segments, right click, then use [Net], [Unroute Track Segments]. That will leave the rest of the track which doesn't have a problem in place, and reduce your work.
Kruse Posted - 28 May 2010 : 18:21:58
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Originally posted by DavidM

It should be even simpler than that, simply select the track segment(s) you want to move to another layer, press the L key (the shortcut for Change Layer) and choose the 'To' layer. Vias will be inserted automatically at each end of the layer-changed section.


Yes, I read about that approach in the help file, but it leaves me with a new problem -as I see it.
The 2 vias places them selves at each bended end of the track segment, and thus cancelling out those bends.
If I here after wants to adjust the track I fall into the tidious task of aligning the track again with all the skew angles and misplaced segment it brings. It tend to end up with completely rerouting the track.
DavidM Posted - 28 May 2010 : 15:09:10
It should be even simpler than that, simply select the track segment(s) you want to move to another layer, press the L key (the shortcut for Change Layer) and choose the 'To' layer. Vias will be inserted automatically at each end of the layer-changed section.