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Better wire control

Anonymous
2017-12-24
2017-12-26
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2017-12-24

    Moving wires is very difficult, and often ends up in a complete mess if a component is moved after it has been connected.
    It would be good if it was possible to select a wire and move it (eg. drag a vertical wire left/right, drag a horizonttal wire up/down and drag wire corners around, instead of the default behavior always being to extend or join onto wires.
    A fine grid would also help when laying out tracks - it gets very difficult to maange track layout when there are multiple chips or more complex circuits, where many tracks have to cross over each other.
    Having a grid spacing that 2x or 4x finer than the pin spacing would help be able to lay tracks out without them runing over each other.(in parallel)

     
  • Santiago

    Santiago - 2017-12-26

    You can move wires by pressing CTRL and left-click and move wire (keeeping ctrl pressed).
    You can have a look to this video ( movig wires from min 2:00):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Eu72MWyyQ

    There are some tutorials here:
    http://simulide.blogspot.com.es/p/blog-page.html

    THe finer grid could be good.
    But remember you can also use buses for chip connections.

    Regards.

     
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