This project has several sections all on a single sheet, ISA bus interface, Floppy interface and Serial interface.
To make it more manigable I have moved the serial interface components to their own sheet, as this is the part I’m modifying. I have called this Serial.sch
However I find that if I disconnect a pin (on a component moved to serial) from it’s already routed tracks to re-wire/move. The pin becomes disconnected from the net it was previously connected to and is now connected to serial/netname, so I can’t re-route the track back to it.
Is there a way I can prevent this happening? e.g. a way of having all nets global, rather than local to the sheet?
Is the issue actually that the net name changed? Or more so that some part of the PCB (pads or traces or vias) didn’t automatically update properly so you can’t re-route easily? I ask because the first is a feature request (to pretend all labels are global), the second is probably a bug in the update PCB process.
Can you also provide your version info? (KiCad > About KiCad > Copy Version info
if you select the tool, then click on the net, the generation of the label is automatic, so the process is quite fast, you just have to click each dangling wire.
KiCad offers some ‘accelerators’ that are not directly apparent for the casual user, like for example ‘pin helpers’ tool or the ‘ins’ key. once you start using them the schematic entry is sped up a lot and less prone to ‘misspelling’ errors.
