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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle"> Set routing level</div>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('routingtools/stock_overview.html');return(false);">Stock Overview</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('routingtools/nested_stock.html');return(false);">Related Topics</a></p>
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      <p class="para_topic">A routing level allows you to work with nested stock and fittings efficiently and conveniently. A stock on a particular <b class="uiTerm">Routing Level</b> will not connect to another stock or a part unless they are on the same level. We designed the behavior of routing levels in relationship to stock and fitting to ensure that you do not accidentally connect stock/fittings in the active routing level across multiple routing levels.
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      <p class="para_topic">A routing level allows you to organize various routing fittings and stock present in a routing assembly into groups of connectable objects. For example, you could place all wires and electrical fittings on the routing default (level 0), all conduit stock and fittings on routing level 1 and all tube stock and fittings on routing level 2.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">You can define any number of routing levels to fit your design needs. The active <b class="uiTerm">Routing Level</b> is set in Routing <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('routingtools/preferences_preference.html');return(false);">Preferences</a>. Note that a <b class="uiTerm">Routing Level</b> name need not be a number, but may be any character string.
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      <p class="para_topic">If you do not intend to work with nested stock, you do not need to work with the <b class="uiTerm">Routing Level Preference</b> option. By default, all stocks and fittings that you create is placed in the default routing level (0).
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      <p class="para_topic">You can use the routing levels to not only model nested stock but to organize different types of stock and parts in your routing assembly into different levels. You can also use routing levels to control stock to part connections. For example, if you do not wish to connect a part placed in a path to the stock present on that path, you can place your part on a different routing level using  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('routingtools/char_routing.html');return(false);">Edit Characteristics</a>.
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      <p class="para_topic">Set the <b class="uiTerm">Active Routing Level</b> (if used) in <b class="uiTerm">Preferences</b> before assigning stock. If you have not need to use routing levels then you can leave everything at the default setting of<b class="uiTerm"> Routing Level</b>. You can edit the routing level of stock at any time by choosing the <b class="uiTerm">Routing Level</b> button on the <b class="uiTerm">Stock</b> dialog box.
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      <p class="para_topic">Use this dialog box for setting the routing level of stocks. When selecting multiple stocks, the routing level selected applies to them all. </p>
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               <p class="para_td">State</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Enters the dialog box.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specify routing level.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">%d stocks selected, replace the %d with the actual number of stock pieces selected.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">The list consists of the assigned routing levels to the stock in the work part.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">OK</b> will change the routing Levels on all of the selected stocks.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Back</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Cancel</b> exit the dialog box and return to the previous dialog box.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">OK</b> is sensitive after a routing level has been specified from the list, or a new routing level is typed into the entry box.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">None</b>. The selected stocks are in the previous dialog box.
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               <p class="para_td">None.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Enter any string into the <b class="uiTerm">Routing Level</b> entry box.
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