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Delete Connection

 

Up to and including Kicad 5, EESchema had a menu option "Delete
Connection", which allowed one to select a wire and delete it and all
the connected wires not connected via a junction. This seems to have
disappeared in Kicad 6, with the only alternative being to select the
wire, press Alt-4, and then Del (or Delete from the menu). This
creates additional work for something I do frequently (indeed more
frequently than just deleting a single wire). Additionally, Alt-4
selects wires beyond a junction, which is often not what I want.

Am I missing something, or do I need to raise the reinstatement of
"Delete Connection" as a feature request?

Regards,

Robert.

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In Kicad5, I finish this operation by doing the following:
1.?Hover mouse over the wire you want to delete,
2.?press??"i" to select the entire net, you can hit "i" twice to extend the selected net segments.
3. press "Del" to delete the entire selected net.

±·´Ç·É£¬¾±²Ô Kicad 6, the only change is you need to press?¡®³Ü¡¯ instead of 'i'.
Lots of operation defined on hotkeys in Kicad.
 

I just tried that in both 5 and 6, with the same result. 'u' does
nothing, whilst 'i' creates a graphical line. Indeed hovering over the
graphical line button in 6 reveals the shortcut 'i'.

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/05/2022 09:14, wu.weikang via groups.io wrote:
In *Kicad5*, I finish this operation by doing the following:
1. Hover mouse over the wire you want to delete,
2. press *"i"* to select the entire net, you can hit *"i"* twice to extend the
selected net segments.
3. press "*Del*" to delete the entire selected net.

±·´Ç·É£¬¾±²Ô *Kicad 6*, the only change is you need to press *¡®³Ü¡¯* instead of *'i'*.
Lots of operation defined on hotkeys in Kicad.
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On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 09:57 +0100, Robert wrote:
I just tried that in both 5 and 6, with the same result.?? 'u' does
nothing, whilst 'i' creates a graphical line.?? Indeed hovering over the
graphical line button in 6 reveals the shortcut 'i'.
What's listed in your Hotkeys list for Eeschema?

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Regards,
Tony
 

I can't see a way of exporting the list as text, but 'i' is "Add lines"
and 'u' is "Edit reference designator...". Filtering on "select"
doesn't reveal anything that does what I want (it does reveal 'Alt+4').

Playing around with 'u', it looks like that only works if there is a
component selected or under the cursor, which makes sense.

I've never changed the hotkeys.

Regards,

Robert.

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On 18/05/2022 11:19, Tony Casey wrote:
On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 09:57 +0100, Robert wrote:
I just tried that in both 5 and 6, with the same result. 'u' does
nothing, whilst 'i' creates a graphical line. Indeed hovering over the
graphical line button in 6 reveals the shortcut 'i'.
What's listed in your Hotkeys list for Eeschema?
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