Here are a few tips for moving components in Multisim and minimizing the rewiring steps: These are my preferred suggestion to "preserve" the wiring with the part move listed in my preferential order:
1) Try drawing a selection box around the entire component + wire grouping and move the entire group (as long as both the part and the entire wire segment is selected) and you should be able to preserve the wiring intact. For some reason this does not always work 100% of the time, but it does work in many situations where you need to create space.
2) If you hold the <Shift> key down while moving the part, the part will be forced to be moved either horizontally or vertically, which will tend to minimize rewiring issues.
3) If you absolutely want a corner of a wire to stay in position, create a forced junction <Ctrl+J> and place at a selected wire position (usually a corner position works best and you can later delete if needed). This usually allows everything on the other side of the wire to stay in position while you're moving the component around on one side.
4) For large pinout devices, create/use multisection parts when possible or create local or global 'breakout' connectors to attach to other locations in the design.
- Pat N
