I think that for this, you actually did too much too soon. You should have gotten the symbol placement where it needed to be, before drawing in your wires. As Trond noted, symbol stretching won't affect anything beyond the symbol. I think you're going to have to just get everything adjusted so it fits, then redraw or reconnect the wires. Sorry but there's not going to be a faster way here.
As for your huge connector: don't forget that you can split a connector. Maybe a good solution for you will come in the form of eight pieces of that connector, displayed 16 pins at a time. They can all be on the same sheet, or different sheets. Note that sending split children to another sheet can be tricky and would involve a specific workflow.
Also, depending on your application, you may be able to get away with not showing the unused pins. In that case, use the 'Delete Connector Pins' command to remove the unwanted pins, followed by stretching the connector, if needed, to get the spacing right.
It's important that any edits to the connector itself are made ONLY with ACADE commands. This is to ensure that the underlying data in the project database correctly keeps track of the connector.
Once your connector is situated on the sheet and you think it's good to go, draw wires and make connections. After the circuit is completely drawn, whole sections of it can be tweaked with the vanilla STRETCH command. Just follow the basic rules for stretching: enclose all objects that you want to adjust and deselect the ones that are ok. The most important consideration there is, DO NOT make any stretches that would affect a connector's tag. Doing that with a vanilla command, instead of an ACADE command, prevents data from being written to the project database.
Hope this helps,
Jim Seefeldt
Electrical Engineering Technician
Well, to be fair, the editing tools for connectors are limited, but elsewhere in the software it's not too bad. However, one thing that's consistent is moving symbols with the wires still attached almost always requires us to redraw the wires. If you wait to draw those last, editing a schematic is much easier.
You're definitely on point regarding this software's development, it's not progressed very much and it lags further behind the competition every day. Which is a shame, I like using ACAD verticals because I already know vanilla ACAD. But, it's become apparent that the time is fast approaching when we'll have to decide if we want to stay with it.
Jim Seefeldt
Electrical Engineering Technician
