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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:19:17 +0200, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Good question Peter. Does someone want to field this? I didn't change
> this code so I cannot answer why Pcbnew will no longer allow you to
> change trace widths by selecting an alternate width from the combobox.
> You can switch to the gal canvas and use the trace properties dialog
> but in the legacy canvas, this feature doesn't exist. :(.

Ouch. Very very very not fun.

That's inacceptable for power designs... I have boards where I go around
with 22mm traces (yes, *so* much current, and 70µm of copper :D) and
then stubs out with smaller ones to feed parts. Of course it's a royal
PITA to evaluate hot spots so a FLIR cam is a must for these...

Less extreme use case: feed bypass caps with a moderately big track
(wide as the plane via) and then thin out to feed the IC.

IIRC the previous behaviour was quite useful and sufficient, you had the
'netlist value' as a default slot (marked with *) and an override for
specific widths. And hotkeys too (I found them by mistake :P)

We should consider a rollback/merge up or whatever bzr call the
operation to restore the functionality... or something changed so that
is no more possible to have it without a lot of work?

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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