Trim a wire

Trim a wire back to an intersection with another wire, a component, or remove it completely.

After you insert wires, you can trim them. The Trim Wire tool removes wire segments. You can trim single or multiple wires.

Trim a wire

  1. Click Schematic tabEdit Wires/Wire Numbers panelTrim Wire. Find
  2. Respond to the prompts as follows:

    Fence/Crossing/Zext/<Select wire to TRIM>:

    Select the wire segment at line reference 404 between the two vertical wires (1), then right-click to exit the command

    Wire segments are trimmed back to a connecting dot, a component, or completely if neither is encountered along the segment. Any connection dots that are no longer needed are removed.

    The trimmed wire resembles the following image.