Moving wires to different pins

[fsonnichsen]

I am a new user and have the following question regarding wiring of schematics.
Suppose I have a wire connecting two pins. I want to move one end of the wire to a different pin. How do I do this? Drag and Move do not seem work here. Those familiar with Orcad or ExpressPCB are used to clicking one end of the wire, moving it to the new pin and then cleaning up the trace a bit if required.

Thanks
Fritz

[BobZ]

Hi, Fritz

I do not claim to be an expert user by any means. But I would agree that KiCad’s schematic editing capability is not as good as I have used elsewhere such as even ExpressPCB which I have used extensively. Sometimes it seems to be necessary to delete a portion of a wire and draw another one. Open to other comments.

[eelik]

Shematic editor is a bit clumsy. The experience will be very different with the next major version 6.0, but it won’t be released for some time. It’s not worth reporting a bug agains version 5.1 for this because 5.1 won’t be changed functionally anyways. If you can, you can try the nightly builds to test how it works in the development version (create a new test project, don’t open your old designs with it).

[Rene_Poschl]

The schematic editor indeed does not use the select and do concept described by @fsonnichsen. It uses the place mouse and use hotkey concept.
So while you can not click on the end of the wire and drag it that way you can still do the same by placing the mouse pointer over that end and use the hotkey “g” for grab and get the same result.

And as @eelik stated this will change in version 6 as the schematic editor interface concept will be moved to the select and do workflow.

[fsonnichsen]

Thanks all. I will cope with this until the new release.