On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 11:21:47AM -0500, Michael Ross wrote: > Hi Chris, > Over the years I have documented a number of simple circuits using Dia. > Never had the heightened need, or the time or money budget to use a > purpose built circuit design package. So I am very sympathetic with > wanting an easy line join and the ability to move it at the joint. > Zigzag would be very nice if you could merge endpoints somehow. > I find grouping and layering to be very helpful if you haven't > undertaken to use those functions yet. > The connection points (in the Electric sheet, not Circuit like I said > earlier) will work, but they are annoying because they can be enormous > or tiny and hard to grab ahold of when you want to move them. They are > inconvenient to place if you do a lot of them. You can attach a regular > line to a connection point and move the point while the lines stay > attached and rubber band as desired. > I just attached a line, a zigzag, a polyline, an arc, and a bezierline > to a connection point and they all tracked the connection point when I > moved it. It was annoying grab the point. You can work around that by > making the connection point large and easy to grab, then shrink to hide > it, or change it to the background color. Lots of ways to do it, but > none as simple as in CAD systems. > Yes, I've found and used the connection point but you have described most of its disadvantages.
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