If we have hop overs can we have a wobbly HB pencil line drawing tool as well. Thanks.
Hopovers made sense in the era of schematics on paper. Same as the rule of never having a junction with four wires. With KiCad this is obsolete as schematics aren’t hand drawn, aren’t photocopied, and legibility is just a matter of adjusting preferences. I think it would be a waste of effort to add features to support obsolete practices.
I grew up with cross = connection, hop = no connection. But at some point it changed to dot = connection, cross = no connection. So I assumed that is just the “new way”.
With or without the erasing tool that leaves dark grey smudges?
The service industry (I believe it still exists in places) still uses paper: folded, stained, photocopied photocopies, torn, dog-eared paper.
I’m also not a fan of hop-overs or goose-unders (but voted don’t care) and I print finalised schematics on paper… just in case.
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I found an appropriate use of a hop-over on the sidewalk near my house!
These are the markings left by “Miss Utility”, a service that marks underground utility lines so construction can avoid (or “miss”) the utility lines when they dig.
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I think this proves one side of the argument, but I am not sure which side. Maybe it is telling someone to go ohm?
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Graffiti artist can write Greek but not “sweet” between the Ωs. 
Ωygod. Now I’m closing this thread for good.
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If lines are crossing that are not meant to connect to each other, they hop over like altium. Would there be a feature like this that I can check in Kicad?
No.
Kicad supports neither hop-overs nor duck-unders.
In Kicad, if crossing lines ARE to connect (but considered bad practice), they have a junction dot. If crossing lines ARE NOT to connect, they do not have a junction dot.
Just to explain that SOON didn’t manage to bypass the closed status; I merged this from a topic they started.
Better close it again before Eelik has another Ωygod moment!
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It stayed closed, a mod merging a topic doesn’t affect that.
Sometimes I forget my superpowers especially after the WTF moments of seeing threads like that rising from the mire.