Click on a pin or press the W key and click on a wire to start the new wire, cross the wire you want to jump over then click the new wire on a wire or pin to end it:

I wish it went like that, I will try again, you only mention the W key because it brings up the wire, it does not cause it to skip over wires. I did what you suggested, click start, bring the wire across other wires and attach to another point. The problem is that it attaches to what I pass over, So I tried to bring up the net connection to see if there was a way to break it, and had no luck there. I have two or three places where i will have to skip over wires.  I will try again by deleting the wires and starting over.  Thanks

Just as before, I deleted both wires, and attached one, then I started a new wire, crossed the point I did not wan to attach, and attached it to where it goes, when ia let go of the wire, it connected the point I wanted to skip. I know this because there was a dot on the connection, I did not stop on that point, but it attached anyway .  What do you think is going on?

Please post an animated gif screencast like mine to show what happens when you connect and draw your wires.

Try starting a new blank and simple demo schematic to see how it should all work.

I thought I fixed it, but when I get done, and I click on each wire, I see a dot on the connection I don't want, on both wires.

@andyfierman  is there a choice on the menu to do that? I will look.

How do I create a video of my  board?

I ran the wire a different way and it did not make the wrong connection  as far as I know.

"How do I create a video of my  board?"

Sorry but I'm not familiar with the tools you'll need for Windows but I'm sure Google knows.

I haven't found a good screencast to animated GIFs package for Linux so I installed a screencast recorder (Kazam) then recorded the video you see above and then uploaded the video to:

https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif

to convert the mp4 video to animated GIFs.

Then downloaded the animated gif file and pasted that into my forum post.

I tried the dedicated screen recorder to animated GIFs package, Peek but it didn't work for me on Linux mint 18.2.

Have you tried my suggestion of starting with an empty schematic and just creating a simple one to learn to use the various schematic tools rather than struggling with something you have already got in a tangle with?

Yes, and I did realize that certain relative distances between parts can be problematic when trying to avoid  wiring connections. I found that if i moved things and routed my wires a different way, I could avoid the wire connections i didn't want.

So maybe you could look at my current complaint about not finding parts like i use to. I have been not finding certain resistors,  and capacitors, so i had to copy them from older projects. My current part problem that i have not figured out has to do with a whole new part, where the one i found is not labeled the way it should be , so I had to try and edit it, but the part left some pins off, and I'm sure I have to get into a deeper level of editing.  I don't see any way to do that yet, and the parts library has been very helpful as it was in previous projects. It almost looks like someone turned my ability to find parts off.  Just when I realized I have to examine everything that comes out of the library for mistakes, like i did on my first batch of boards where the transformer I found was user created ,and had no  solder pads or holes, just dots where the pin would go. That cost me an entire order of 200 boards to go in the trash.  So live and learn, if I have too many more problems with EasyEDA, i will have to find some better software somewhere else to create my gerber files.  Then I will search for the board maker by price and shipping instead of what JLCPCB gives me.  There has to be a way to fully edit a part, and only keep the foot print the same.

"...and I did realize that certain relative distances between parts can be problematic when trying to avoid  wiring connections."

Can you illustrate this?

My current problem is in finding a part in surface mount that will be correct.  Here is the picture of what I found, and it is a big problem for me if I can't get the part number from Digikey, or Mouser and use it, or edit a fresh part in the way it should be.   Here is what I have and it is all wrong due to the way the surface part was in the library.  The part number is supposed to be 771-74HCT4046AD-T   Moser, but to shorten it 74HCT4046

@joe.massimino,

My concern, based on your original post in this thread is to try to understand why you have been having problems routing wires so that they cross others to see if there is a problem with the Schematic Editor or if there some better guidance needed about how to use the wiring tool.

You have raised your entirely separate question about library parts in two other threads and will be addressed, just not in this thread.

OK, I understand, the problems keep getting worse with parts, but I will update the question about parts in the other thread.

@andyfierman I followed this thread that Joseph started because I am having the same issue with wires crossing and automatically getting pinned at the intersection. I have tried running the wire in both directions, and always end up with a pinned intersection, which I don't want. If I click on the pin, I see a dialogue box to the right that gives the coordinates of the intersection. It would be highly intuitive if, in this dialogue box, I could remove the pin and thus illustrate that there is no connection at the crossing point. I am unable at this point to remove the pinned intersection. Any help you can give would be much appreciated.

@kgarvey,

This simply should not happen.

Please post some screenshots or if possible an animated GIF (like mine 16 posts above) showing exactly what you are doing to cause these join dots to appear.

If possible can you make a copy of the project that exhibits this problem public?

https://docs.easyeda.com/en/Introduction/Share-to-Public/index.html

Thanks.

@andyfierman ,  I'll try the animated GIF in a while. For now, the project is shared. Here is the link.  https://easyeda.com/kgarvey/ss200-Audio-Amp
Active page editor:  https://easyeda.com/editor#id=|d9ea9a0db79044eeacbcb06c83185ff6|f2c2510b442d400987c2427ef4f26c1a

Wires that should not connect include:
Vertical from Cr1-CR3 to Q3
Horizontal from R6 to R14
Off to work. Will check back in 4 hours.
Thanks for your help.

@andyfierman,you need to know this is my first attempt at EDA. I may not have an understanding of how to draw wires regarding methods. There must be some way we indicate when we want a connection to occur, and when not to connect. I'm not understanding that.

@kgarvey,

You are making a number of mistakes in how you place schematic symbols and then try to wire them together.

Do not overlap the pin on one symbol with the pin of another. Allow at least one grid square between their ends:

Wire only to and from the pin ends.

Please study my animated gif above and the ones below very carefully.

Make sure that the pin end of a component is not placed accidentally in line with a wire that you are drawing between two pins. If it is then it will be joined to the wire!

@andyfierman Thank you. Your suggestions make sense and more importantly, work. Is there a tutorial other than the very basic one online? One that might list error messages and how to fix them.

I don't think there's any specific tutorial that illustrates error messages etc.

However, this might help at a more general level:

https://easyeda.com/andyfierman/Welcome_to_EasyEDA-31e1288f882e49e582699b8eb7fe9b1f

The software really needs a way to illustrate a bend or curve in the lines of non contacting leads.  The very nature of the software is designed to make circuit construction easier.  Contact tracing is essentially impossible for complex circuits as line crossing shows as apparent at each junction (or non-junction).  Please consider this a necessary improvement.
Thanks!

@themarkstocket,

Can you clarify your question please?

Post a sketch to illustrate your point?

Hi!

I use "Net Port" tool so that the wires do not cross in any section of the schematic.

https://easyeda.com/markus_jidoka/rockman_guitar_effect_v3-0

Regards,

Markus Virtanen
HW / Electronics Designer

Whilst I thoroughly recommend using netlabels and netflags to indicate connections in a schematic, there are some points worth considering.

1. I prefer to use netlabels to connect nets within a schematic sheet;
2. then use netflags to show connections between schematic sheets;
3. I think there is a happy medium for a schematic between using wires and netnames. Too many wires can make the schematic messy and hard to read but also too many nets shown connected only by netnames can make a schematic hard to follow as each netname has to be remembered correctly and it is open to misreading or misremembering net names.

• The general point about using netnames is discussed here:

https://docs.easyeda.com/en/Simulation/Chapter4-Introduction-to-using-a-simulator/index.html#Components-are-connected-by-netnames

and underpin the topic discussed here:

https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/How_does_the_Connect_Pad_to_Pad_tool_work_-JgQO0Ay7H:

:)

It seems like when I double-click the wire tool on a terminal and move over to the next terminal and double-click there it makes connections with any wires I may have crossed on the way over. However, when I single-click instead of double-clicking then it ignore any wires crossed over. I am using the online EDA. Who else has the same experience?

@sanjaybhatikar Hello, regardless of clicking or double clicking, as long as the line segments are clicked on the intersecting line the intersection will be created.