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Can not use unroute command

reimurray01 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:04:19 GMT

I am creating my first PCB in Autodesk Fusion 360 - Supposedly, I am actually using Autodesk Eagle. I am currently in the PCB window and I have the top layer selected in the layers dropdown menu.

I have a capacitor that is way larger than the rest of my parts, in both the two dimensional and the three dimensional views.

I must use the unroute command to disconnect the capacitor from the rest of my net list/components.

Per Autodesk documentation found here , I am supposed to choose the unroute command, choose a method e.g. between components, and then click on the wire I want to kill.

But I have some annoying group select tool enabled. There is no way to simply take a mouse pointer, place it on a wire and unroute the wire.

Of course using group select and boxing the whole part and its netlist wires throws a warning about connections that cannot be deleted as they cannot be back annotated and that I must use UNROUTE command.

I tried this command to turn off group select tool by default but it just made it so that if I did use a group box in order to choose a group of details nothing would happen. So I did set it back to 1 to re-enable group select by default. (Set Option.GroupDefault 0;)

So, I just hear a windows error/bump tune when ever I click unroute then click on a wire I am trying to get rid of. I can't get rid of the connections and so I can't remove the part from my design that I want to remove.

Re: Can not use unroute command

bidrohini — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:44:26 GMT

You can try 'unroute all' instead.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=ECD-RIPUP-ALL-DO

Re: Can not use unroute command

jorge_garcia — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 20:08:13 GMT

Hello @reimurray01,

I hope you're doing well. The unroute command is used to convert routed wires back to just signal airwires. It does not apply here.

If you want to get rid of the connections you have to go back to the schematic and delete those connections then the airwires will disappear. If you actually want to change the capacitor you can do that with the package command in the 2D PCB.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Can not use unroute command

reimurray00 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:16:12 GMT

Thanks. The solution you gave works well.