Urgent help needed please. Garmin ignoring my pre-planned routed

OK, we're on a trip through parts of Spain, not that far from our home. The first time our Garmin Drive Smart has been used "in anger" (and, boy, did I get angry!).

I'd carefully pre-planned our routes in Basecamp, putting in sufficient shaping points to go on the back roads we wanted to explore. I'd transferred them to the device and checked the route was OK on the map when I loaded the route on the device.

However, when we set out on our first day (3 more routes to go) I pressed GO having loaded the route, the map of it showing correctly, then it went away "calculating" the route and I was horrified to find it was going to take us on the fastest route and not the way I'd pre-planned, In other words it had ignored all my shaping points. I changed the settings to avoid motorways but that did not work either as, for parts of the route, motorways are the only option without diverting several scores of kms down bumpy tracks,

After much cursing, I somehow got it to follow the pre-planned route, but I know not how I did it. I think I avoided pressing the GO button but apart from that, I just don't know.

If someone could point me in the right direction (literally!) on how to get my Garmin to follow the routes I spent so much time preparing, I would be extremely grateful! By the way, the first "destination" in today's route was our final destination, the other waypoints all being shaping points.

 

Thanks for the response. I have tried again with tomorrow's route. It has just the one shaping point to force it a certain way, but when I press GO it creates a route totally ignoring the waypoint. If I turn it into a destination it works. Yes, using the same maps on both, as supplied on the Garmin and copied to PC. I do appreciate the help on this forum.

 

Thanks!

 

Thanks as ever for the advice. I have a feeling this was happening because I was loading the route before the device knew where it was, ie acquiring satellites, still! Today went better. I'll let you know what happens in two days when our next long journey is.

Meanwhile it did let us down this morning in Albacete. I had put the cathedral in as a routing (shaping) point as I did not want the device to keep taking back to it if it was impossible to get close, which it often is in Spanish cities due to ever-narrowing streets (until you're trapped in a nightmarish maze!). But before I knew it, I was being taken out of the city again without even glimpsing the cathedral. I was wondering how close you have to get before it is deemed you can carry on?

 

Aha. That makes sense. We'll have to go back to Albacete sometime and try again. Thanks!