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      <div class="title_refTopic" id="xps10_pagetitle">Path Curve Chaining</div>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">When in Normal mode, multiple curves can be selected with a single selection. If two drive curves are selected consecutively, they chain together and a routing path creates between them if they connect through other drive curves. The starting end of this chain will be the end selected on the first curve. The ending end may be on either end of the second curve selected. If the system finds no chain, it treats the second curve as a regular drive curve. The maximum number of curves that can be in a single chain is 100.</p>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">To disable chaining, turn off all chainable curve types.</p>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option determines whether or not lines are chainable when creating a path.</p>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option determines whether or not arcs are chainable when creating a path.</p>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option determines whether or not splines are chainable when creating a path.</p>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option determines whether or not curves under the work part component are chainable when creating a path.</p>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">This option specifies how the chaining is to be performed.</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">[No Branch (0), Continuous (1), Follow Tangent (2), Cycle All Chains (3), Minimum Path Length (4), Maximum Path Length (5)]</p>
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No Branch: Chaining halts at a branch. No curve in the chain can have more than one curve connected to it at either end, except possibly the starting or ending ends of the chain.
Continuous: The tangent vectors must match between all connected curves (G1). If there is more than one candidate chain, a selection must be made.
Follow Tangent: When multiple curves connect to the current curve in the chain, the one that most closely matches the tangent is used.
Cycle All Chains: Returns all possible curve chains for selection. The order of curve chains is random.
Minimum Path Length: Use the chain with the minimum path length.
Maximum Path Length: Use the chain with the maximum path length.</pre><p class="para_refCategory"></p>
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