Deleting Wires

You can change the path of an existing wire without first deleting the wire. Create the new wire path between the same terminals and LabVIEW deletes the previous wire path.

Complete the following steps to delete a portion or all of a wire.

  1. Use the Positioning tool to single-click the wire to select one segment of the wire, double-click to select a branch, or triple-click to select the entire wire.
  2. Press the <Delete> key or the <Backspace> key.

A broken wire appears as a dashed black line. Broken wires occur for a variety of reasons, such as when you try to wire two objects with incompatible data types. Move the Wiring tool over a broken wire to view the tip strip that describes why the wire is broken.

Note  Do not confuse a dashed black wire with a green dotted wire. A green dotted wire represents a Boolean data type.

Delete all broken wires by selecting Edit»Remove Broken Wires.

Caution  Use caution when removing all broken wires. Sometimes a wire appears broken because you are not finished wiring the block diagram.