Created attachment 197122 [details] Wire hops in SmartDraw When the lines of two (right-angle) connectors have an accidental intersection, the appearance is of four lines at right angles, extending in four directions. This is confusing, especially since, in theory, these could be two connectors which are tangent: ^ -------> and | | or maybe ^ ---/ and /----> | ? Now, with this ASCII graphic, I've actually distinguished the second case by "cutting the corners", forcing some distance between the two lines. This should be possible as an automatic behavior for tangent connectors. Similarly, two connectors which accidentally-intersect could have a "hop" gadget used to indicate that they are not intended to actually connect: | _|_ / | \ ____/ | \_____ | this is available in some electrical wiring diagram drawers, and perhaps also in Visio. We should have this in Draw (and thus also Impress).
See the dynamic hop generation in Visio in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYc26tlsilQ&t=95s
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 54990 ***
Heiko: The hops part is a dupe, but the tangency separation, i.e. | ---*--- | to | --/ /-- | is not a dupe. Shall we keep this bug for that aspect?
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3) > Shall we keep this bug for that aspect? Rather comment on the other ticket.