Is there a way to force "Clean Up Wire" feature to use Grid Alignment?

[Ryan_G_EE]

Is there a way to force the "Clean Up Wire" feature to use Grid Alignment? I never use block diagram cleanup, but very often I try to use the Clean Up Wire feature...but the vast majority of the time it makes a bigger mess of things and I just end up using it to reduce kinks and then re-align the wires myself...if there was a way to force it to snap to grid, it would make my life way easier! I've played around in the Tools>Options>Block Diagram menu, but nothing seems to work....but I just can't believe it isn't possible, I must be missing something? What's the point of having a grid if the wires won't snap to them?

[James.M]

No snap to grid functionality, but you could make the wire spacing  settings match the grid spacing settings. It doesn't fit perfectly because subVI terminals make everything shift a weird number of pixels, but that may be the closest you can get.

I use auto-cleanup on small subVI code just to make it cleaner without taking the time to drag stuff around. I love auto-cleanup for this reason, hence I adapted my profile avatar from the auto-cleanup illustration.

[billko]

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@James.M wrote:

No snap to grid functionality, but you could make the wire spacing  settings match the grid spacing settings. It doesn't fit perfectly because subVI terminals make everything shift a weird number of pixels, but that may be the closest you can get.

I use auto-cleanup on small subVI code just to make it cleaner without taking the time to drag stuff around. I love auto-cleanup for this reason, hence I adapted my profile avatar from the auto-cleanup illustration.

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I do the same thing.

Auto-cleanup on large BD's is good for one thing, though - if you use auto-clean and the code looks nicer, it's time to re-think your coding habits.  😉

[aflojo]

As far as I can tell I don’t think it is possible in the current version of LabVIEW, but it's a really good idea. I don't know if you know about the LabVIEW idea exchange, but it’s a page that R&D monitors and sometimes ideas from there get added to future versions of LabVIEW so it might be worth posting.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/idb-p/labviewideas

[Ryan_G_EE]

Good idea. Just submitted it! 🙂