Re: Is it possible to connect the ends of lines together?

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

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.

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On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:45 AM, Chris Green <cl isbd net> wrote:

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 11:33:49PM -0500, Michael Ross wrote:
>    It is common in CAD programs to be able to connect one line to another
>    and have them stay attached when the grip where they join is moved.  So
>    it it is sort of an artifact from a different paradigm.  I have a habit
>    of wanting to attach two line ends from decades of CAD work.  For me it
>    would be convenient if I could do that in Dia as well.  I get by with
>    polylines, polygons and Bezier Regions, but they are not as easy to
>    use.

Exactly!  :-)    Though in my case the major use for joining two (or
more) lines would be on circuit diagrams.

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