Touch gestures in the schematic editor

These recordings show three ways to keep circuit editing direct on iPhone and iPad: fit the full schematic, connect two pins, and join contacts while moving a component.

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Available on iPhone and iPad
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Touch and pointer input

From canvas navigation to a connected circuit

Each gesture removes a separate interruption from schematic editing. The recordings are taken from the running Tersa app.

  1. Fit the full schematic

    Double-tap an empty area of the canvas.

    The editor recalculates the viewport so every placed component and conductor is visible without manual pinching or panning.

    The complete circuit returns to view.

    Tersa schematic editor fitting all placed components into the viewport after a double-tap on empty canvas
  2. Start and finish a wire

    Double-tap a component, then tap the destination pin.

    Connection mode exposes the available contacts. Selecting the target contact completes the conductor between the two pins.

    A direct pin-to-pin connection is created.

    Tersa starting a connection from a selected component and completing it on another component pin
  3. Connect while moving

    Drag a component until its contact overlaps another contact, then release.

    When compatible contacts meet at release, the editor joins them and creates the conductor automatically.

    Placement and wiring finish in one action.

    Tersa creating a conductor when two component contacts overlap as a moved component is released

Keep the circuit in context

Canvas framing, explicit pin connections, and contact-aware placement work together so the schematic remains readable while it changes.