WISH: Detaching a plugged wire to reconnect it to another input.

It would nice if one could press a specific key and click on an input in order to detach a wire and reconnect it to another input. There might also be a tab saying reconnect below disconnect? I hope this makes sense and that someone else finds it useful. wdyt?

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Permalink Reply by Adam Chałupski on September 11, 2012 at 4:45am

Hey Arthur, not sure if this is what you want to do but did you try to hold Ctrl+Shift while reattaching wires from one in/output to another ?

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on September 11, 2012 at 4:48am

Oh perfect! Thanks a lot Adam :)

Permalink Reply by Hrvoje Petrovic on September 11, 2012 at 4:49am

There is, so far I know, the ctrl-shift combination for this task. But this moves all of the wires that come into a input. I do not know if there is anything if you want to move only one specific wire out of many.

Hm. Adam was faster...

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on September 12, 2012 at 3:51am

Thanks Hrvoje, ctrl+shift worked well!

Is there a way to do ctrl+shift+'another key' to copy the wire when reconnecting it instead of detaching the original one? That would be very useful too.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 12, 2012 at 4:57am

It should be Ctrl+Shift+Drag and then RightMouseClick to create a copy. It works for regular drags but not ctrl+shift drags, I'll try and add that feature for the next release.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on September 12, 2012 at 6:59am

Brilliant! Thanks a lot David.

Permalink Reply by Duncan W on April 30, 2014 at 12:42am

Sorry to dig out this old thread I googled up, but how is your thinking on adding the copy functionality to ctrl+shift drags?

It would be nice if this could work backwards as well. I am working on a pretty large definition right now where I sometimes create geometry that then needs to be added to a component far away near the end of the definition. Say I already have this end component connected somewhere near to where I'm working, it would be nice If I could copy that wire (or wires with ctrl+shift) to the output box of my new geometry.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 30, 2014 at 2:30am

Ctrl+Shift Drag tap RMB still doesn't work.

What I do for large distances is to copy the component with all the wires connected at location A navigate the Canvas to Location B and use Ctrl+Shit+V to insert the copied component at the middle of the screen. Then I use Ctrl+Shift Drag to hook up the wires to the intended component and delete the copied one.

Permalink Reply by Duncan W on May 5, 2014 at 8:33am

Yeah, I do that, too.

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