aligning connection stubs to grid


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keithgiles
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I used the symbol wizard to create a symbol for a floor pocket input panel.  The wizard created a symbol with connection stubs that were 2 grid spaces apart.  I rescaled the symbol to make the symbol smaller and especially to reduce the distance between the connection stubs to one grid space because that will match up better with the input/output panel that I created by modifying an MUSA patchfield symbol.  Although the connection stubs are exactly 1 grid space apart, they no longer align with the grid.  What is the best way to re-align the connection stubs with the grid so that my connections lines will run parallel to one another and without any unnecessary jogs.  Thanks!
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I have two feature requests that have to do with the symbol creation wizard.  I have accidentally hit return several times now before I'm done creating a symbol with the wizard.  This happens mostly when editing the text on lots of ins and outs; "enter" is the default "next" on so many other programs that it's a natural mistake.  Once you have finished with the Wizard for a symbol, you can never get back into it!  The problem is that once you move from the Wizard to having to edit the symbol everything gets much harder to do properly.  The Wizard really is the easiest and best place to do this.  I'd like to see an "are you sure" question before the symbol is finished, or some other more sure way to confirm I'm finished.  Maybe "enter" shoud be the "next" key and you should have to click a "finish" box to send the symbol to the library.

Which brings me to the next suggestion.  When I pull up a symbol to edit it, it would be great to pull up the Wizard already filled in for that symbol.  Then you could edit the number of ins and outs and all the other parts of the symbol as if you were creating it from scratch.  I  notice that if I have problems with wiring connections etc. it's usually with symbols I edit outside of the Wizard. 

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