Unexpected Route Airwire Behavior

[zach.mears]

Hi, I think I accidentally changed some setting with route airwire and now it tries to squish my traces around surrounding features in a really weird way. Has anyone seen this before and if so does anyone know how to fix it?

I am running eagle 9.6.1

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @zach.mears,

I hope you're doing well. This looks like what the walkaround obstacles mode would do if you left clicked a vertice at every possible opportunity.

If you are using the Quick Route tools then the those will just do the best they can based on the design rules. Try ripping it up and redoing it and see if does the same thing.

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

Best Regards,

[zach.mears]

Hi, I am once again using eagle, this time version 9.6.2 on a completely different machine and I am again having this issue, it seems to randomly appear and sometimes go away.
All I have done is clicked on the pad I want and then placed my cursor somewhere. I have tried re-starting eagle and that doesn't help.

I'd really appreciate any help as this makes routing traces very very frustrating.

Edit: it seems to be tied to certain nets, some nets have the problem and some don't, but their net class doesn't seem to make a difference.

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @zach.mears ,

I hope you're doing well. This is actually correct behavior, the you defined a point A and point B with nothing else in between, with walkaround obstacles mode active the route command will route from A to B hugging the obstacles as closely as possible. This is by design. 

I would recommend left clicking points along the way to define your traces how you want them to look.

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

Best Regards,