Mac, Sequioa. We’ve been on 2026 for awhile, but I swear adding elbows is increasingly getting crazier. I circled my little batch: this elbow I tried to add is on the other side of the solar system. Those grey boxes and circles? Nothing there, obviously. Wild times, wild.
Are you clicking a line with add (+) or something else? I haven’t seen this behavior on Mac/Sequioa.
Yep, just regular old Add+. 99% of the time it’s fine, but it’s been getting worse, across different or new projects.
Yes. This is very annoying. I use the spacebar tab/f12 to add stuff all the time and the new nodes after a while add on half way up the schematic.
I have seen this behaviour as well on 2026.2.2. As @johnt describes.
Ok, so it’s just 2026 being goofy.
also in 2025
I get this on Linux 2026.2.2 as well.
Also on 2027
Yeah I get this adding input layer nodes for Action. 2026.2 Mac
I’ve experienced this frequently.
Both on Mac and On Linux 2026.2
this too!
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I have closed this entry because it is not about a General Improvement request but a defect.
Defects must be reported to the Support team, not on Flame Feedback.
As for the issue itself, can all of you confirm if it only happens when the Schematic is zoomed out. Can you reproduce it when zoomed in?
Thanks Fred. Understood on the classification.
I can reproduce this consistently on a daily basis when the system is under heavier memory pressure. It doesn’t appear strictly tied to Schematic zoom level on my side. I’ve seen it both zoomed out and when viewing the full batch.
When it occurs again, I’ll capture a screen recording along with memory stats. Let me know if there’s any other specific data that would help narrow it down.
Yes when zoomed in. I suspect it might also be related: when you click a node and add something from your saved list in spacebar tab. The first one is fine. The second shoots up out of view.
There seems to be two different issues (that could end up being the same one, who knows).
- Adding an elbow using the Add shortcut.
- Adding a node using the Search widget.
For both cases, having a video showing the issue would be helpful. Not because we cannot understand what the issue is, but we would need to know what nodes were selected and where it was.
The probable culprit is the algorithm put in place so a new node is not added on top of another one (mostly for issue #2 above). If you select a node add connect a new node to it using the Search widget, the new node is placed to its right. If you select the original node back and connect a new node using Search again, then the new node will be placed above the first added node instead of on top of it. Depending on your schematic, the new node could be placed far away if there is no place to put the new node.
One other thing to check would be to validate if the new node is added the 0,0 coordinates. When a new node is added far way, press the Home button for the Schematic view and see if the new node was added at the centre of it. If so, it might be that we lost where you were at and added it to the default location.