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      <p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> is a Routing Electrical specific function. This function allows you to easily model the ends of wires where they connect to electrical components. However, the modeling of terminal wires is optional as you can route wires to a connector without modeling the individual terminal wires.
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      <p class="para_topic">The <b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> function provides a means for modeling and unmodeling the terminals that connect to terminal ports of a routing component. Create Terminals operates on a set of segments or bundle connected to the multiport of a component. It subdivides the bundle path at a specified cut back distance from the multiport, removes cut back segments and stock, and creates spline path segments to each of the terminal ports.
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      <p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b>does not require that wires are routed to the component. The terminal segments create whether wires are routed or not. Note that this function, accessed directly from the <b class="uiTerm">Wiring Toolbar</b>, operates on one component at a time. You may work on many components at once by highlighting them in the <b class="uiTerm">Component Navigator</b> and choosing <b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> from the right-click menu. In this case, terminal creation is controlled by a <b class="uiTerm">Wiring Preference</b>.
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      <div class="title_division">Extension Length and Cut Back Length</div>
      <p class="para_division">From the <b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> dialog box, you may specify values for the <b class="uiTerm">Extension Length</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Cut Back Length</b>. The terminal extension length is the distance the terminal wire approaches the terminal port in a straight line. The cut back length is the distance from the multiport along the connecting path where the terminals exit the bundle.
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      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> looks for the CUT_BACK_LENGTH characteristic on the multiport first and then on the component associated with the multiport. This value is displayed in the <b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> dialog box upon invocation, if found. If the system finds no characteristic value, then the multiport is interrogated for a cut back length (defined when the component part was qualified for Routing using <b class="uiTerm">Qualify Part</b>).
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      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> also attempts to display the terminal extension length when you select terminals in the multilist of the dialog box. To determine the extension length of a terminal, the <b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> function looks for the EXTENSION_LENGTH characteristics on the terminal port first, the multiport second, and, lastly, on the component associated with the multiport. If the system finds no characteristic value, then <b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> looks at the mulitport for the value, as provided when the part was qualified.
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      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> dialog box allows you to operate on specific multiports and select specific terminal ports. Options on the dialog box enable selection of all terminal ports of a multiport, only terminal ports referred to in the connection list, or only terminal ports that are currently routed (have wires running to them). You may also select or deselect individual terminal ports for the operation.
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      <p class="para_division">From the <b class="uiTerm">Component Navigator View</b>, you can perform an automatic <b class="uiTerm">Create Terminals</b> function on all multiports of the selected components. The system obtains the group of destination terminal ports from user preferences. The options are: <b class="uiTerm">All</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Listed</b>, or <b class="uiTerm">Routed</b>.
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