Though I’m new to KiCAD, I have extensive experience with traditional non-EDA CAD tools like AutoCAD and almost a full decade with DipTrace. I’ve figured out relatively quickly many aspects of the schematic capture side of things with a combination of Googling, YouTube, and KiCAD documentation. However, I’m stuck into what I have to assume is just a functional misunderstanding of how KiCAD needs me to deal with schematic traces when a component is moved on the sheet. Example: I have two components connected via a schematic trace that is horizontal. A change order comes in and I need to move one of those components up some amount on the sheet to make way for other components below. I do so with the “g” key and the wire/trace is now at an angle. No matter what I do, I can’t seem to find a way to even create grab points on that now angeled trace to a more rational right-angle path. “Drag wire” from either end of the wire disconnects the trace from the components, so that feels like a bad idea. I have to be missing something here.
-EM